diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 582d9ffb4..ab1c2f006 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     
     <!-- Dependency versioning-->
-    <cassandra.version>2.0.4</cassandra.version>
+    <cassandra.version>3.0.26</cassandra.version>
     <org.springframework.version>3.0.6.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
     <slf4j.version>1.6.1</slf4j.version>
     <!-- Maven plugin versioning -->