diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index e0e790f5479..2ea6aac7993 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -398,6 +398,9 @@ Release 0.23.3 - UNRELEASED
 
     MAPREDUCE-3543. Mavenize Gridmix. (tgraves)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-4197. Include the hsqldb jar in the hadoop-mapreduce tar 
+    file (Ravi Prakash via tgraves)
+
 Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/pom.xml
index c09b8519186..094bc80bee6 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/pom.xml
@@ -159,6 +159,11 @@
       <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
       <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
+      <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
+      <version>2.0.0</version>
+    </dependency>
 
   </dependencies>