diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0abd9a5..4d31969 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <cdap.version>6.8.0-SNAPSHOT</cdap.version>
     <hadoop.version>2.10.2</hadoop.version>
-    <hsql.version>2.2.4</hsql.version>
+    <hsql.version>2.7.1</hsql.version>
     <hydrator.version>2.11.0-SNAPSHOT</hydrator.version>
     <!-- properties for script build step that creates the config files for the artifacts -->
     <widgets.dir>widgets</widgets.dir>