diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.4.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.4.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 00875d73f418..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.4.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, ... } @ args:
-
-import ./generic.nix (args // rec {
-  version = "4.4.20";
-  extraPatches = [ ./cygwin-4.4.patch ];
-  sha256 = "0y9vsq8dkarx1mhhip1vaciz6imbbyv37c1dm8b20l7p064bg2i9";
-  branch = "4.4";
-  drvArgs = { hardeningDisable = [ "format" ]; };
-})
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.5.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.5.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 84b5ea67420a..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.5.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, ... } @ args:
-
-import ./generic.nix (args // rec {
-  version = "4.5.20";
-  extraPatches = [ ./cygwin-4.5.patch ./register-race-fix.patch ];
-  sha256 = "0bd81k0qv5i8w5gbddrvld45xi9k1gvmcrfm0393v0lrm37dab7m";
-  branch = "4.5";
-  drvArgs = { hardeningDisable = [ "format" ]; };
-})
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.7.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.7.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 6016d112d517..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/db/db-4.7.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, ... } @ args:
-
-import ./generic.nix (args // rec {
-  version = "4.7.25";
-  sha256 = "0gi667v9cw22c03hddd6xd6374l0pczsd56b7pba25c9sdnxjkzi";
-  branch = "4.7";
-  drvArgs = { hardeningDisable = [ "format" ]; };
-})
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/my-env/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/my-env/default.nix
index 5e94f6f7771c..ffdaf3949aea 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/my-env/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/my-env/default.nix
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
       # this is the example we will be using
       nixEnv = complicatedMyEnv {
         name = "nix";
-        buildInputs = [ libtool stdenv perl curl bzip2 openssl db45 autoconf automake zlib ];
+        buildInputs = [ libtool stdenv perl curl bzip2 openssl db5 autoconf automake zlib ];
       };
     };
   }
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 56011d3d254d..f763951e25d7 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5519,7 +5519,7 @@ in
   python3Packages = python35Packages;
 
   python26 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/python/cpython/2.6 {
-    db = db47;
+    db = db4;
     self = python26;
   };
   python27 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/python/cpython/2.7 {
@@ -6500,7 +6500,7 @@ in
 
   aprutil = callPackage ../development/libraries/apr-util {
     bdbSupport = true;
-    db = if stdenv.isFreeBSD then db47 else db;
+    db = if stdenv.isFreeBSD then db4 else db;
     # XXX: only the db_185 interface was available through
     #      apr with db58 on freebsd (nov 2015), for unknown reasons
   };
@@ -6714,9 +6714,6 @@ in
   # bsd-like license
   db = db5;
   db4 = db48;
-  db44 = callPackage ../development/libraries/db/db-4.4.nix { };
-  db45 = callPackage ../development/libraries/db/db-4.5.nix { };
-  db47 = callPackage ../development/libraries/db/db-4.7.nix { };
   db48 = callPackage ../development/libraries/db/db-4.8.nix { };
   db5 = db53;
   db53 = callPackage ../development/libraries/db/db-5.3.nix { };