diff --git a/glance/cmd/manage.py b/glance/cmd/manage.py
index 7139514f56..8e5169d5a2 100644
--- a/glance/cmd/manage.py
+++ b/glance/cmd/manage.py
@@ -145,15 +145,15 @@ class DbCommands(object):
 
         # This flags let's us bypass trigger setup & teardown for non-rolling
         # upgrades. We set this as a global variable immediately before handing
-        # off to sqlalchemy-migrate, because we can't pass arguments directly
-        # to migrations that depend on it.
+        # off to alembic, because we can't pass arguments directly to
+        # migrations that depend on it.
         USE_TRIGGERS = False
 
         curr_heads = alembic_migrations.get_current_alembic_heads()
         contract = alembic_migrations.get_alembic_branch_head(
             db_migration.CONTRACT_BRANCH)
 
-        if (contract in curr_heads):
+        if contract in curr_heads:
             print(_('Database is up to date. No migrations needed.'))
             sys.exit()
 
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 853c0000ff..bcdaa8c572 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ eventlet>=0.25.1 # MIT
 PasteDeploy>=1.5.0 # MIT
 Routes>=2.3.1 # MIT
 WebOb>=1.8.1 # MIT
-sqlalchemy-migrate>=0.11.0 # Apache-2.0
 sqlparse>=0.2.2 # BSD
 alembic>=0.9.6 # MIT
 httplib2>=0.9.1 # MIT