diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e1cd7df99..6affc21ae 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Werkzeug>=0.14.1 # BSD License
 keystonemiddleware>=4.21.0 # Apache-2.0
 stevedore>=1.28.0 # Apache-2.0
 voluptuous>=0.11.1 # BSD License
-SQLAlchemy>=1.2.5 # MIT
+SQLAlchemy>=1.4.0 # MIT
 sympy>=1.1.1 # BSD
 pysnmp>=7.1.0  # BSD
 PyJWT>=1.6.0 # MIT
diff --git a/vitrage/storage/sqlalchemy/models.py b/vitrage/storage/sqlalchemy/models.py
index 3015fea87..aa737af33 100644
--- a/vitrage/storage/sqlalchemy/models.py
+++ b/vitrage/storage/sqlalchemy/models.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ from oslo_db.sqlalchemy import models
 
 from sqlalchemy import Column, DateTime, INTEGER, String, \
     SmallInteger, BigInteger, Index, Boolean, ForeignKey
-from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
+from sqlalchemy.orm import declarative_base
 from sqlalchemy.orm import relationship
 import sqlalchemy.types as types