Database connection not pointing to the correct database backend

I'm running Ubuntu and I'm trying to create a small web-app connecting to a mysql database. (I've also tried sql-server database and had the same issue)

It took me awhile the first time I did this but I was able to get it to work using

 'ENGINE': 'mysql.connector.django',

This time around I'm doing the same thing with the same database but I want to use 

'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',

Here are the packages I've installed

pip freeze
asgiref==3.2.3
Django==3.0
django-mysql==3.3.0
dnspython==1.16.0
mysqlclient==1.4.6
protobuf==3.6.1
PyMySQL==0.9.3
pyodbc==4.0.28
pytz==2019.3
six==1.14.0
sqlparse==0.3.0

settings.py:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'NAME': 'inventory',
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
        'HOST': 'localhost',
        'USER': 'root',
        'PASSWORD': 'xxxx',
        'PORT': '3306',

    }
}

However I'm still getting this error when trying to run migrate:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/cam/.local/share/virtualenvs/Parts_Project-YIqPqjtZ/lib/python3.6/site-packages/django/db/utils.py", line 111, in load_backend
    return import_module('%s.base' % backend_name)
....
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: 'django.db.backends.mysql' isn't an available database backend.
Try using 'django.db.backends.XXX', where XXX is one of:
    'oracle', 'postgresql', 'sqlite3'

I've searched this problem over and over again online, 

none of these solutions have worked for me. 

I've obviously not pointing to the correct database backend.

Any ideas?

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