diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 1e0fb31..6200dca 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
 __pycache__/
+planetmint_environment/
 *.py[cod]
 *$py.class
 
diff --git a/planetmint/backend/tarantool/connection.py b/planetmint/backend/tarantool/connection.py
index 1a66d9f..867084b 100644
--- a/planetmint/backend/tarantool/connection.py
+++ b/planetmint/backend/tarantool/connection.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
 class TarantoolDB:
-    def __init__(self, host: str = None, port: int = None, user: str = None, password: str = None,
+    def __init__(self, host: str = "localhost", port: int = 3303, user: str = None, password: str = None,
                  reset_database: bool = False):
         self.host = host
         self.port = port
@@ -24,30 +24,33 @@ class TarantoolDB:
         self.db_connect = tarantool.connect(host=self.host, port=self.port)
         self.init_path = Config().get()["database"]["init_config"]["absolute_path"]
         self.drop_path = Config().get()["database"]["drop_config"]["absolute_path"]
-        if reset_database:
-            self.drop_database()
-            self.init_database()
+        # if reset_database:
+        #     self.drop_database()
+        #     self.init_database()
         self.SPACE_NAMES = ["abci_chains", "assets", "blocks", "blocks_tx",
                             "elections", "meta_data", "pre_commits", "validators",
                             "transactions", "inputs", "outputs", "keys"]
 
+    def _reconnect(self):
+        self.db_connect = tarantool.connect(host=self.host, port=self.port)
+
     def space(self, space_name: str):
-        try:
-            return self.db_connect.space(space_name)
-        except tarantool.error.SchemaError:
-            return None
+        return self.db_connect.space(space_name)
 
     def get_connection(self):
         return self.db_connect
 
     def drop_database(self):
         db_config = Config().get()["database"]
-        return self.run_command(command=self.drop_path, config=db_config)
+        cmd_resp = self.run_command(command=self.drop_path, config=db_config)
+        self._reconnect()
+        return cmd_resp
 
     def init_database(self):
         db_config = Config().get()["database"]
-
-        return self.run_command(command=self.init_path, config=db_config)
+        cmd_resp = self.run_command(command=self.init_path, config=db_config)
+        self._reconnect()
+        return cmd_resp
 
     def run_command(self, command: str, config: dict):
         import subprocess
@@ -57,7 +60,7 @@ class TarantoolDB:
             stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
             stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
             universal_newlines=True,
-            bufsize=0,
+            bufsize=1,
             shell=True).stdout.readlines()
         # TODO verify if subprocess creation worked properly
         return True if "nil value" not in ret else False
diff --git a/requirements_old.txt b/requirements_old.txt
index 20f32a4..f5f4ca3 100644
--- a/requirements_old.txt
+++ b/requirements_old.txt
@@ -1,47 +1,57 @@
-aiohttp==3.6.2
+aiohttp==3.7.4
 aniso8601==9.0.1
-asn1crypto==1.4.0
 async-timeout==3.0.1
 attrs==21.4.0
-base58==1.0.3
-BigchainDB==2.2.2
-bigchaindb-abci==1.0.5
+base58==2.1.0
+bigchaindb-abci==1.0.7
+capturer==3.0
 certifi==2021.10.8
 cffi==1.15.0
 chardet==3.0.4
-click==8.0.3
-colorlog==4.1.0
-cryptoconditions==0.8.0
-cryptography==2.3.1
-Flask==1.1.2
-Flask-Cors==3.0.8
-Flask-RESTful==0.3.8
-gevent==20.6.2
-greenlet==0.4.16
-gunicorn==20.0.4
+click==8.1.2
+colorlog==5.0.1
+cryptography==3.4.7
+Flask==2.0.1
+Flask-Cors==3.0.10
+Flask-RESTful==0.3.9
+gevent==21.1.2
+greenlet==1.1.2
+gunicorn==20.1.0
+humanfriendly==10.0
 idna==2.10
-itsdangerous==2.0.1
-Jinja2==3.0.3
+iniconfig==1.1.1
+itsdangerous==2.1.2
+Jinja2==3.1.1
 jsonschema==3.2.0
 logstats==0.3.0
-MarkupSafe==2.0.1
-multidict==4.7.6
+MarkupSafe==2.1.1
+msgpack==1.0.3
+multidict==6.0.2
 packaging==21.3
-protobuf==3.6.1
+Planetmint==0.9.0
+planetmint-cryptoconditions==0.9.4
+pluggy==1.0.0
+protobuf==3.17.2
+py==1.11.0
 pyasn1==0.4.8
 pycparser==2.21
-pymongo==3.7.2
-PyNaCl==1.1.2
-pyparsing==3.0.7
+pymongo==3.11.4
+PyNaCl==1.4.0
+pyparsing==3.0.8
 pyrsistent==0.18.1
-python-rapidjson==0.9.1
-pytz==2021.3
-PyYAML==5.3.1
-requests==2.23.0
-setproctitle==1.1.10
+pytest==7.1.1
+python-rapidjson==1.0
+pytz==2022.1
+PyYAML==5.4.1
+requests==2.25.1
+setproctitle==1.2.2
 six==1.16.0
-urllib3==1.25.11
-Werkzeug==2.0.3
+tarantool==0.7.1
+tomli==2.0.1
+typing-extensions==4.1.1
+urllib3==1.26.9
+Werkzeug==2.1.1
 yarl==1.7.2
+zenroom==2.1.0.dev1649760309
 zope.event==4.5.0
 zope.interface==5.5.0.dev0
diff --git a/tests/backend/tarantool/conftest.py b/tests/backend/tarantool/conftest.py
index d83788e..ac4a7e1 100644
--- a/tests/backend/tarantool/conftest.py
+++ b/tests/backend/tarantool/conftest.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import pytest
 from planetmint.backend.connection import Connection
+
+
 #
 #
 #
@@ -22,12 +24,6 @@ from planetmint.backend.connection import Connection
 #     conn.drop_database()
 #     #_drop_db(conn, dbname)
 
-#def _drop_db(conn, dbname):
-#    try:
-#        conn.drop_database()
-#        schema.drop_database(conn, dbname)
-#    except DatabaseDoesNotExist:
-#        pass
 
 @pytest.fixture
 def db_conn():
diff --git a/tests/backend/tarantool/test_schema.py b/tests/backend/tarantool/test_schema.py
index 3961f33..dc8d56c 100644
--- a/tests/backend/tarantool/test_schema.py
+++ b/tests/backend/tarantool/test_schema.py
@@ -3,17 +3,9 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 AND CC-BY-4.0)
 # Code is Apache-2.0 and docs are CC-BY-4.0
 
-from planetmint.config import Config
-from planetmint.backend import Connection
 from planetmint.backend.tarantool.connection import TarantoolDB
 
 
-# This function creates database, we have now only spaces so for now it is commented
-# def test_init_database_is_graceful_if_db_exists():
-#     conn = TarantoolDB('localhost', 3303)
-#     conn.drop_database()
-#     conn.init_database()
-
 def _check_spaces_by_list(conn, space_names):
     _exists = []
     for name in space_names:
@@ -26,16 +18,15 @@ def _check_spaces_by_list(conn, space_names):
 
 
 def test_create_tables():
-    conn = TarantoolDB('localhost', 3303)
-    # The db is set up by the fixtures so we need to remove it
-    # conn.drop_database()
-    conn.init_database()
-
-    assert conn.SPACE_NAMES == _check_spaces_by_list(conn=conn, space_names=conn.SPACE_NAMES)
+    db_conn = TarantoolDB("localhost", 3303)
+    db_conn.drop_database()
+    db_conn.init_database()
+    assert db_conn.SPACE_NAMES == _check_spaces_by_list(conn=db_conn, space_names=db_conn.SPACE_NAMES)
 
 
 def test_drop():  # remove dummy_db as argument
-    conn = TarantoolDB('localhost', 3303)
-    conn.drop_database()
-    actual_spaces = _check_spaces_by_list(conn=conn, space_names=conn.SPACE_NAMES)
+    db_conn = TarantoolDB("localhost", 3303)
+    db_conn.drop_database()
+    actual_spaces = _check_spaces_by_list(conn=db_conn, space_names=db_conn.SPACE_NAMES)
     assert [] == actual_spaces
+