diff --git a/hoodie-client/pom.xml b/hoodie-client/pom.xml
index 181c4526b..df736079f 100644
--- a/hoodie-client/pom.xml
+++ b/hoodie-client/pom.xml
@@ -183,11 +183,6 @@
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
 
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
-      <artifactId>hbase-client</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
       <artifactId>mockito-all</artifactId>
@@ -204,7 +199,6 @@
     <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
         <artifactId>hbase-client</artifactId>
-        <version>1.2.3</version>
     </dependency>
 
     <dependency>
diff --git a/hoodie-spark/pom.xml b/hoodie-spark/pom.xml
index 38ecb0513..bad31b0e1 100644
--- a/hoodie-spark/pom.xml
+++ b/hoodie-spark/pom.xml
@@ -152,10 +152,6 @@
   </build>
 
   <dependencies>
-    <dependency>
-        <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
-        <artifactId>avro</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.scala-lang</groupId>
       <artifactId>scala-library</artifactId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 5bccca7f9..824c6d851 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@
     <maven-dependency-plugin.version>2.10</maven-dependency-plugin.version>
     <maven-jar-plugin.version>2.6</maven-jar-plugin.version>
     <maven-surefire-plugin.version>2.19.1</maven-surefire-plugin.version>
+    <maven-compiler-plugin.version>3.8.1</maven-compiler-plugin.version>
     <fasterxml.version>2.6.7</fasterxml.version>
     <parquet.version>1.8.1</parquet.version>
     <junit.version>4.11</junit.version>
@@ -140,6 +141,7 @@
     <scala.libversion>2.11</scala.libversion>
     <surefire-log4j.file>file://${project.basedir}/src/test/resources/log4j-surefire.properties</surefire-log4j.file>
     <thrift.version>0.12.0</thrift.version>
+    <hbase.version>1.2.3</hbase.version>
   </properties>
 
   <scm>
@@ -224,6 +226,7 @@
       <plugin>
         <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
         <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+        <version>3.8.1</version>
         <configuration>
           <source>1.8</source>
           <target>1.8</target>
@@ -262,6 +265,10 @@
 
     <pluginManagement>
       <plugins>
+        <plugin>
+          <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+          <version>${maven-compiler-plugin.version}</version>
+        </plugin>
         <plugin>
           <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
           <version>${maven-dependency-plugin.version}</version>
@@ -556,7 +563,7 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.hbase</groupId>
         <artifactId>hbase-client</artifactId>
-        <version>1.0.0</version>
+        <version>${hbase.version}</version>
       </dependency>
 
       <dependency>
@@ -713,11 +720,6 @@
         <version>${hive.version}</version>
         <scope>provided</scope>
       </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>org.rocksdb</groupId>
-        <artifactId>rocksdbjni</artifactId>
-        <version>5.5.1</version>
-      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
         <artifactId>hadoop-hdfs</artifactId>