diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 980d038e0c..8c2065487c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
   <properties>
     <java.version>1.7</java.version>
     <avro.version>1.7.6</avro.version>
-    <spark.version>1.2.0</spark.version>
+    <spark.version>1.4.1</spark.version>
     <parquet.version>1.8.1</parquet.version>
     <!-- Edit the following line to configure the Hadoop (HDFS) version. -->
     <hadoop.version>2.2.0</hadoop.version>