diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index c4782715c90..a3494e3317b 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -284,6 +284,9 @@ Release 0.23.3 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-6963. In FileUtil.getDU(..), neither include the size of directories
     nor follow symbolic links.  (Ravi Prakash via szetszwo)
 
+    HADOOP-8180. Remove hsqldb since its not needed from pom.xml (Ravi Prakash
+    via tgraves)
+
 Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED 
 
   NEW FEATURES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
index b0c22fc073c..9ad6fdba9a8 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/pom.xml
@@ -199,11 +199,6 @@
       <artifactId>commons-configuration</artifactId>
       <scope>compile</scope>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>hsqldb</groupId>
-      <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
-      <scope>compile</scope>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
       <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index 63d7e624c16..2e0892b1988 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -510,11 +510,6 @@
         <artifactId>commons-configuration</artifactId>
         <version>1.6</version>
       </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>hsqldb</groupId>
-        <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
-        <version>1.8.0.7</version>
-      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
         <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>