Vertica JDBC client issue

I am trying to use vertica jdbc with elasticsearch river jdbc engine I am getting the following error from the vertica jdbc driver

java.sql.SQLNonTransientConnectionException: [Vertica][VJDBC](5273) FATAL: Unsupported frontend protocol 3.5: server supports 3.0 to 3.4        at com.vertica.util.ServerErrorData.buildException(Unknown Source)
        at com.vertica.io.ProtocolStream.authenticate(Unknown Source)
        at com.vertica.io.ProtocolStream.initSession(Unknown Source)
        at com.vertica.core.VConnection.connect(Unknown Source)
        at com.vertica.jdbc.common.BaseConnectionFactory.doConnect(Unknown Source)
        at com.vertica.jdbc.common.AbstractDriver.connect(Unknown Source)
        at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:571)
        at java.sql.DriverManager.getConnection(DriverManager.java:215)
        at org.xbib.elasticsearch.river.jdbc.strategy.simple.SimpleRiverSource.getConnectionForReading(SimpleRiverSource.java:196)
        at org.xbib.elasticsearch.river.jdbc.strategy.simple.SimpleRiverSource.execute(SimpleRiverSource.java:315)
        at org.xbib.elasticsearch.river.jdbc.strategy.simple.SimpleRiverSource.fetch(SimpleRiverSource.java:287)
        at org.xbib.elasticsearch.plugin.feeder.jdbc.JDBCFeeder.fetch(JDBCFeeder.java:335)
        at org.xbib.elasticsearch.plugin.feeder.jdbc.JDBCFeeder.executeTask(JDBCFeeder.java:179)
        at org.xbib.elasticsearch.plugin.feeder.AbstractFeeder.newRequest(AbstractFeeder.java:362)
        at org.xbib.elasticsearch.plugin.feeder.AbstractFeeder.newRequest(AbstractFeeder.java:53)
        at org.xbib.pipeline.AbstractPipeline.call(AbstractPipeline.java:87)
        at org.xbib.pipeline.AbstractPipeline.call(AbstractPipeline.java:14)
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: com.vertica.support.exceptions.NonTransientConnectionException: [Vertica][VJDBC](5273) FATAL: Unsupported frontend protocol 3.5: server supports 3.0 to 3.4
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Any help will be appreciated...