diff --git a/sdks/java/io/hadoop-input-format/build.gradle b/sdks/java/io/hadoop-input-format/build.gradle
index 7c2d8d60d9ce..1acc8f4bab51 100644
--- a/sdks/java/io/hadoop-input-format/build.gradle
+++ b/sdks/java/io/hadoop-input-format/build.gradle
@@ -64,10 +64,13 @@ dependencies {
     // TODO(https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-3715)
     // These are all optional deps of elasticsearch-hadoop. Why do they have to be excluded?
     exclude group: "cascading", module: "cascading-local"
+    exclude group: "cascading", module: "cascading-hadoop"
     exclude group: "org.apache.hive", module: "hive-service"
+    exclude group: "org.apache.pig", module: "pig"
     exclude group: "org.apache.spark", module: "spark-core_2.10"
     exclude group: "org.apache.spark", module: "spark-streaming_2.10"
     exclude group: "org.apache.spark", module: "spark-sql_2.10"
+    exclude group: "org.apache.storm", module: "storm-core"
   }
   testCompile "com.datastax.cassandra:cassandra-driver-mapping:$cassandra_driver"
   testCompile "org.apache.cassandra:cassandra-all:3.9"