diff --git a/app/db.go b/app/db.go
index f5cc4cb..a21d2f1 100644
--- a/app/db.go
+++ b/app/db.go
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ const MaxValueWidth int = 60
 type DB struct {
 	Debug  bool
 	Dbfile string
+	Bucket string
 	DB     *bolt.DB
 }
 
@@ -75,8 +76,8 @@ type DbTag struct {
 
 const BucketData string = "data"
 
-func New(file string, debug bool) (*DB, error) {
-	return &DB{Debug: debug, Dbfile: file}, nil
+func New(file string, bucket string, debug bool) (*DB, error) {
+  return &DB{Debug: debug, Dbfile: file, Bucket: bucket}, nil
 }
 
 func (db *DB) Open() error {
@@ -114,7 +115,7 @@ func (db *DB) List(attr *DbAttr) (DbEntries, error) {
 
 	err := db.DB.View(func(tx *bolt.Tx) error {
 
-		bucket := tx.Bucket([]byte(BucketData))
+		bucket := tx.Bucket([]byte(db.Bucket))
 		if bucket == nil {
 			return nil
 		}
@@ -182,7 +183,7 @@ func (db *DB) Set(attr *DbAttr) error {
 	// any  tags. if so,  we initialize  our update struct  with these
 	// tags unless it has new tags configured.
 	err := db.DB.View(func(tx *bolt.Tx) error {
-		bucket := tx.Bucket([]byte(BucketData))
+		bucket := tx.Bucket([]byte(db.Bucket))
 		if bucket == nil {
 			return nil
 		}
@@ -211,7 +212,7 @@ func (db *DB) Set(attr *DbAttr) error {
 
 	err = db.DB.Update(func(tx *bolt.Tx) error {
 		// insert data
-		bucket, err := tx.CreateBucketIfNotExists([]byte(BucketData))
+		bucket, err := tx.CreateBucketIfNotExists([]byte(db.Bucket))
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("failed to create DB bucket: %w", err)
 		}
@@ -245,7 +246,7 @@ func (db *DB) Get(attr *DbAttr) (*DbEntry, error) {
 	entry := DbEntry{}
 
 	err := db.DB.View(func(tx *bolt.Tx) error {
-		bucket := tx.Bucket([]byte(BucketData))
+		bucket := tx.Bucket([]byte(db.Bucket))
 		if bucket == nil {
 			return nil
 		}
@@ -277,7 +278,7 @@ func (db *DB) Del(attr *DbAttr) error {
 	defer db.Close()
 
 	err := db.DB.Update(func(tx *bolt.Tx) error {
-		bucket := tx.Bucket([]byte(BucketData))
+		bucket := tx.Bucket([]byte(db.Bucket))
 
 		if bucket == nil {
 			return nil
@@ -324,7 +325,7 @@ func (db *DB) Import(attr *DbAttr) (string, error) {
 
 	err := db.DB.Update(func(tx *bolt.Tx) error {
 		// insert data
-		bucket, err := tx.CreateBucketIfNotExists([]byte(BucketData))
+		bucket, err := tx.CreateBucketIfNotExists([]byte(db.Bucket))
 		if err != nil {
 			return fmt.Errorf("failed to create bucket: %w", err)
 		}
diff --git a/cfg/config.go b/cfg/config.go
index 23b677f..11d08e7 100644
--- a/cfg/config.go
+++ b/cfg/config.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ var Version string = "v0.0.4"
 type Config struct {
 	Debug      bool
 	Dbfile     string
+	Dbbucket     string
 	Template   string
 	Mode       string // wide, table, yaml, json
 	NoHeaders  bool
diff --git a/cmd/root.go b/cmd/root.go
index 2bc67d5..61c0afb 100644
--- a/cmd/root.go
+++ b/cmd/root.go
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ func Execute() {
 		Short: "anydb",
 		Long:  `A personal key value store`,
 		PersistentPreRunE: func(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
-			db, err := app.New(conf.Dbfile, conf.Debug)
+			db, err := app.New(conf.Dbfile, conf.Dbbucket, conf.Debug)
 			if err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
@@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ func Execute() {
 	rootCmd.PersistentFlags().BoolVarP(&conf.Debug, "debug", "d", false, "Enable debugging")
 	rootCmd.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&conf.Dbfile, "dbfile", "f",
 		filepath.Join(home, ".config", "anydb", "default.db"), "DB file to use")
+	rootCmd.PersistentFlags().StringVarP(&conf.Dbbucket, "bucket", "b",
+        app.BucketData, "use other bucket (default: " + app.BucketData +")")
 
 	rootCmd.AddCommand(Set(&conf))
 	rootCmd.AddCommand(List(&conf))