diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c97ac36..08788fc 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     <properties>
         <jena.version>3.1.1</jena.version>
         <scala.version>2.10</scala.version>
-        <spark.version>1.6.2</spark.version>
+        <spark.version>2.2.3</spark.version>
         <spark.testing.version>1.6.2_0.6.0</spark.testing.version>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     </properties>