diff --git a/examples/pom.xml b/examples/pom.xml
index 002d4458c4b3e2868a8e6887db1455ce58c84a11..4b92147725f6bfa12dd00eabe73e453eaa6defd1 100644
--- a/examples/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/pom.xml
@@ -392,29 +392,6 @@
         </dependency>
       </dependencies>
     </profile>
-    <profile>
-      <id>hbase-hadoop2</id>
-      <activation>
-        <property>
-          <name>hbase.profile</name>
-          <value>hadoop2</value>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <properties>
-        <hbase.version>0.98.7-hadoop2</hbase.version>
-      </properties>
-    </profile>
-    <profile>
-      <id>hbase-hadoop1</id>
-      <activation>
-        <property>
-          <name>!hbase.profile</name>
-        </property>
-      </activation>
-      <properties>
-        <hbase.version>0.98.7-hadoop1</hbase.version>
-      </properties>
-    </profile>
     <profile>
       <!-- We add a source directory specific to Scala 2.10 since Kafka
            only works with it -->
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0403c008be4f4033e352af764fc6fbdd3dca7bc6..f4466e56c2a53fd4acbeeb170915dca162d430f3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
     <hadoop.version>1.0.4</hadoop.version>
     <protobuf.version>2.4.1</protobuf.version>
     <yarn.version>${hadoop.version}</yarn.version>
-    <hbase.version>0.94.6</hbase.version>
+    <hbase.version>0.98.7-hadoop1</hbase.version>
     <hbase.artifact>hbase</hbase.artifact>
     <flume.version>1.4.0</flume.version>
     <zookeeper.version>3.4.5</zookeeper.version>
@@ -1466,6 +1466,7 @@
       <properties>
         <hadoop.version>2.2.0</hadoop.version>
         <protobuf.version>2.5.0</protobuf.version>
+        <hbase.version>0.98.7-hadoop2</hbase.version>
         <avro.mapred.classifier>hadoop2</avro.mapred.classifier>
       </properties>
     </profile>
@@ -1476,6 +1477,7 @@
         <hadoop.version>2.3.0</hadoop.version>
         <protobuf.version>2.5.0</protobuf.version>
         <jets3t.version>0.9.0</jets3t.version>
+        <hbase.version>0.98.7-hadoop2</hbase.version>
         <commons.math3.version>3.1.1</commons.math3.version>
         <avro.mapred.classifier>hadoop2</avro.mapred.classifier>
       </properties>
@@ -1487,6 +1489,7 @@
         <hadoop.version>2.4.0</hadoop.version>
         <protobuf.version>2.5.0</protobuf.version>
         <jets3t.version>0.9.0</jets3t.version>
+        <hbase.version>0.98.7-hadoop2</hbase.version>
         <commons.math3.version>3.1.1</commons.math3.version>
         <avro.mapred.classifier>hadoop2</avro.mapred.classifier>
       </properties>