diff --git a/nb-adapters/adapter-dataapi/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/adapter/dataapi/opdispensers/DataApiCreateCollectionOpDispenser.java b/nb-adapters/adapter-dataapi/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/adapter/dataapi/opdispensers/DataApiCreateCollectionOpDispenser.java
index d20a5521b..14e30e5f1 100644
--- a/nb-adapters/adapter-dataapi/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/adapter/dataapi/opdispensers/DataApiCreateCollectionOpDispenser.java
+++ b/nb-adapters/adapter-dataapi/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/adapter/dataapi/opdispensers/DataApiCreateCollectionOpDispenser.java
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ public class DataApiCreateCollectionOpDispenser extends DataApiOpDispenser {
             Optional<LongFunction<String>> simFunc = op.getAsOptionalFunction("similarity", String.class);
             if (simFunc.isPresent()) {
                 LongFunction<String> sf = simFunc.get();
-                optionsBldr.vectorSimilarity(SimilarityMetric.valueOf(sf.apply(l)));
+                optionsBldr.vectorSimilarity(SimilarityMetric.fromValue(sf.apply(l)));
             }
 
             DataApiCreateCollectionOp dataApiCreateCollectionOp =
diff --git a/nb-adapters/adapter-dataapi/src/main/resources/activities/create_collection.yaml b/nb-adapters/adapter-dataapi/src/main/resources/activities/create_collection.yaml
index 23cc49592..66ebc5fdf 100644
--- a/nb-adapters/adapter-dataapi/src/main/resources/activities/create_collection.yaml
+++ b/nb-adapters/adapter-dataapi/src/main/resources/activities/create_collection.yaml
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@ blocks:
       op1:
         create_collection: "collectionName"
         dimensions: 10
-        similarity: "cosine"
+        similarity: "COSINE"