diff --git a/lib/org/hsqldb/hsqldb/r5970/hsqldb-r5970.jar b/lib/org/hsqldb/hsqldb/r5970/hsqldb-r5970.jar
deleted file mode 100644
index f6eb13a2..00000000
Binary files a/lib/org/hsqldb/hsqldb/r5970/hsqldb-r5970.jar and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/lib/org/hsqldb/hsqldb/r5970/hsqldb-r5970.pom b/lib/org/hsqldb/hsqldb/r5970/hsqldb-r5970.pom
deleted file mode 100644
index dea4919e..00000000
--- a/lib/org/hsqldb/hsqldb/r5970/hsqldb-r5970.pom
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<project xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
-    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
-  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-  <groupId>org.hsqldb</groupId>
-  <artifactId>hsqldb</artifactId>
-  <version>r5970</version>
-  <description>POM was created from install:install-file</description>
-</project>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b04cf82e..c93da40c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 		<bouncycastle.version>1.61</bouncycastle.version>
 		<dagger.version>1.2.2</dagger.version>
-		<hsqldb.version>r5970</hsqldb.version>
+		<hsqldb.version>2.5.0</hsqldb.version>
 		<sqltool.version>2.4.1</sqltool.version>
 		<jetty.version>9.4.17.v20190418</jetty.version>
 		<jersey.version>2.27</jersey.version>