diff --git a/ui/easydiffusion/bucket_manager.py b/ui/easydiffusion/bucket_manager.py
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+import os
+from easydiffusion import app
+
+from sqlalchemy import create_engine
+from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
+from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
+
+SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URL = "sqlite:///"+os.path.join(app.BUCKET_DIR, "bucket.db")
+print("## SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URL = ", SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URL)
+
+engine = create_engine(SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URL, connect_args={"check_same_thread": False})
+SessionLocal = sessionmaker(autocommit=False, autoflush=False, bind=engine)
+
+Base = declarative_base()