diff --git a/google-cloud-datastore/pom.xml b/google-cloud-datastore/pom.xml
index f5252e62f6ad..685786eb6e0b 100644
--- a/google-cloud-datastore/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-datastore/pom.xml
@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@
       <groupId>com.google.cloud.datastore</groupId>
       <artifactId>datastore-v1-proto-client</artifactId>
       <version>1.2.0</version>
+      <exclusions>
+        <exclusion>
+          <artifactId>guava-jdk5</artifactId>
+          <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+        </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>