diff --git a/dd-trace-api/src/main/java/datadog/trace/api/DDSpanTypes.java b/dd-trace-api/src/main/java/datadog/trace/api/DDSpanTypes.java
index 0243134634..495b9fdf44 100644
--- a/dd-trace-api/src/main/java/datadog/trace/api/DDSpanTypes.java
+++ b/dd-trace-api/src/main/java/datadog/trace/api/DDSpanTypes.java
@@ -1,13 +1,18 @@
 package datadog.trace.api;
 
 public class DDSpanTypes {
+  public static final String HTTP_SERVER = "http";
   public static final String HTTP_CLIENT = "http";
   public static final String WEB_SERVLET = "web";
   public static final String RPC = "rpc";
+  public static final String CACHE = "cache";
 
   public static final String SQL = "sql";
   public static final String MONGO = "mongodb";
   public static final String CASSANDRA = "cassandra";
+  public static final String REDIS = "redis";
+  public static final String MEMCACHED = "memcached";
+  public static final String ELASTICSEARCH = "elasticsearch";
 
   public static final String MESSAGE_CONSUMER = "queue";
   public static final String MESSAGE_PRODUCER = "queue";
diff --git a/dd-trace-ot/src/main/java/datadog/opentracing/decorators/DBTypeDecorator.java b/dd-trace-ot/src/main/java/datadog/opentracing/decorators/DBTypeDecorator.java
index 032f3a2f2a..2b86673250 100644
--- a/dd-trace-ot/src/main/java/datadog/opentracing/decorators/DBTypeDecorator.java
+++ b/dd-trace-ot/src/main/java/datadog/opentracing/decorators/DBTypeDecorator.java
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package datadog.opentracing.decorators;
 
 import datadog.opentracing.DDSpanContext;
+import datadog.trace.api.DDSpanTypes;
 import datadog.trace.api.DDTags;
 import io.opentracing.tag.Tags;
 
@@ -25,13 +26,13 @@ public class DBTypeDecorator extends AbstractDecorator {
       // Special case: Mongo, set to mongodb
       if ("mongo".equals(value)) {
         // Todo: not sure it's used cos already in the agent mongo helper
-        context.setSpanType("mongodb");
+        context.setSpanType(DDSpanTypes.MONGO);
       } else if ("cassandra".equals(value)) {
-        context.setSpanType("cassandra");
+        context.setSpanType(DDSpanTypes.CASSANDRA);
       } else if ("memcached".equals(value)) {
-        context.setSpanType("cache");
+        context.setSpanType(DDSpanTypes.MEMCACHED);
       } else {
-        context.setSpanType("sql");
+        context.setSpanType(DDSpanTypes.SQL);
       }
       // Works for: mongo, cassandra, jdbc
       context.setOperationName(String.valueOf(value) + ".query");