diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/lib/__tests__/database/jdbcDialect.spec.ts b/apps/desktop/src/lib/__tests__/database/jdbcDialect.spec.ts
index 8bb3334924..de2c169b22 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/lib/__tests__/database/jdbcDialect.spec.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/lib/__tests__/database/jdbcDialect.spec.ts
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ describe("jdbc dialect inference", () => {
         driver_label: "CacheDB",
       }),
     ).toBe("iris");
+    expect(inferJdbcDialect({ db_type: "jdbc", driver_profile: "cache" })).toBe("iris");
   });
 
   it("uses IRIS table preview dialect for generic JDBC IRIS connections", () => {
diff --git a/apps/desktop/src/lib/database/jdbcDialect.ts b/apps/desktop/src/lib/database/jdbcDialect.ts
index 51acd5fb2e..4205a17ed8 100644
--- a/apps/desktop/src/lib/database/jdbcDialect.ts
+++ b/apps/desktop/src/lib/database/jdbcDialect.ts
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ const JDBC_DIALECT_MATCHERS: Array<{ type: DatabaseType; patterns: RegExp[] }> =
   { type: "informix", patterns: [/jdbc:informix/i, /informix/i] },
   // CacheDB.jar (legacy Caché driver) carries none of the intersystems URL or
   // class-name markers, so match the jar file name / driver label directly.
-  { type: "iris", patterns: [/jdbc:(?:iris|cache):/i, /com\.intersystems\.jdbc\.(?:IRIS|Cache)Driver/i, /intersystems-jdbc/i, /cachedb/i] },
+  { type: "iris", patterns: [/jdbc:(?:iris|cache):/i, /com\.intersystems\.jdbc\.(?:IRIS|Cache)Driver/i, /intersystems-jdbc/i, /\bcache(?:db)?\b/i] },
 ];
 
 // ASE uses Transact-SQL, but treating it as SQL Server globally would also