diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b9a9abf5c..b38d7e3ac 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
     <!-- hadoop stack -->
     <hadoop.version>2.7.1</hadoop.version>
     <spark.version>1.3.0</spark.version>
-    <hive.version>2.1.0</hive.version>
+    <hive.version>3.1.2</hive.version>
 
     <!-- jest client for elasticsearch -->
     <jest.version>0.1.5</jest.version>