diff --git a/benchmarks/bench.sh b/benchmarks/bench.sh
index c02b08576eaa..24efab6c6ca5 100755
--- a/benchmarks/bench.sh
+++ b/benchmarks/bench.sh
@@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ main() {
                     data_tpch "10"
                     data_clickbench_1
                     data_clickbench_partitioned
+                    data_imdb
                     ;;
                 tpch)
                     data_tpch "1"
@@ -166,6 +167,9 @@ main() {
                 clickbench_extended)
                     data_clickbench_1
                     ;;
+                imdb)
+                    data_imdb
+                    ;;
                 *)
                     echo "Error: unknown benchmark '$BENCHMARK' for data generation"
                     usage
@@ -430,6 +434,85 @@ run_clickbench_extended() {
     $CARGO_COMMAND --bin dfbench -- clickbench  --iterations 5 --path "${DATA_DIR}/hits.parquet" --queries-path "${SCRIPT_DIR}/queries/clickbench/extended.sql" -o "${RESULTS_FILE}"
 }
 
+# Downloads the csv.gz files IMDB datasets from Peter Boncz's homepage(one of the JOB paper authors)
+# http://homepages.cwi.nl/~boncz/job/imdb.tgz
+data_imdb() {
+    local imdb_dir="${DATA_DIR}/imdb"
+    local imdb_temp_gz="${imdb_dir}/imdb.tgz"
+    local imdb_url="https://homepages.cwi.nl/~boncz/job/imdb.tgz"
+
+   # imdb has 21 files, we just separate them into 3 groups for better readability 
+    local first_required_files=(
+        "aka_name.parquet"    
+        "aka_title.parquet"
+        "cast_info.parquet"
+        "char_name.parquet"
+        "comp_cast_type.parquet"
+        "company_name.parquet"
+        "company_type.parquet"
+    )
+
+    local second_required_files=(
+        "complete_cast.parquet"
+        "info_type.parquet"
+        "keyword.parquet"
+        "kind_type.parquet"
+        "link_type.parquet"
+        "movie_companies.parquet"
+        "movie_info.parquet"
+    )
+
+    local third_required_files=(
+        "movie_info_idx.parquet"
+        "movie_keyword.parquet"
+        "movie_link.parquet"
+        "name.parquet"
+        "person_info.parquet"
+        "role_type.parquet"
+        "title.parquet"
+    )
+
+    # Combine the three arrays into one
+    local required_files=("${first_required_files[@]}" "${second_required_files[@]}" "${third_required_files[@]}")
+    local convert_needed=false
+
+    # Create directory if it doesn't exist
+    mkdir -p "${imdb_dir}"
+
+    # Check if required files exist
+    for file in "${required_files[@]}"; do
+        if [ ! -f "${imdb_dir}/${file}" ]; then
+            convert_needed=true
+            break
+        fi
+    done
+
+    if [ "$convert_needed" = true ]; then
+        if [ ! -f "${imdb_dir}/imdb.tgz" ]; then
+            echo "Downloading IMDB dataset..."
+            
+            # Download the dataset
+            curl -o "${imdb_temp_gz}" "${imdb_url}"
+            
+            # Extract the dataset
+            tar -xzvf "${imdb_temp_gz}" -C "${imdb_dir}"
+            $CARGO_COMMAND --bin imdb -- convert --input ${imdb_dir} --output ${imdb_dir} --format parquet
+        else 
+            echo "IMDB.tgz already exists."
+
+            # Extract the dataset
+            tar -xzvf "${imdb_temp_gz}" -C "${imdb_dir}"
+            $CARGO_COMMAND --bin imdb -- convert --input ${imdb_dir} --output ${imdb_dir} --format parquet
+        fi
+        echo "IMDB dataset downloaded and extracted."
+    else
+        echo "IMDB dataset already exists and contains required parquet files."
+    fi
+}
+
+
+
+
 compare_benchmarks() {
     BASE_RESULTS_DIR="${SCRIPT_DIR}/results"
     BRANCH1="$1"
diff --git a/benchmarks/src/bin/imdb.rs b/benchmarks/src/bin/imdb.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..40efb84b0501
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmarks/src/bin/imdb.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+
+//! IMDB binary entrypoint
+
+use datafusion::error::Result;
+use datafusion_benchmarks::imdb;
+use structopt::StructOpt;
+
+#[cfg(all(feature = "snmalloc", feature = "mimalloc"))]
+compile_error!(
+    "feature \"snmalloc\" and feature \"mimalloc\" cannot be enabled at the same time"
+);
+
+#[cfg(feature = "snmalloc")]
+#[global_allocator]
+static ALLOC: snmalloc_rs::SnMalloc = snmalloc_rs::SnMalloc;
+
+#[cfg(feature = "mimalloc")]
+#[global_allocator]
+static ALLOC: mimalloc::MiMalloc = mimalloc::MiMalloc;
+
+#[derive(Debug, StructOpt)]
+#[structopt(name = "IMDB", about = "IMDB Dataset Processing.")]
+enum ImdbOpt {
+    Convert(imdb::ConvertOpt),
+}
+
+#[tokio::main]
+pub async fn main() -> Result<()> {
+    env_logger::init();
+    match ImdbOpt::from_args() {
+        ImdbOpt::Convert(opt) => opt.run().await,
+    }
+}
diff --git a/benchmarks/src/imdb/convert.rs b/benchmarks/src/imdb/convert.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..c95f7f8bf564
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmarks/src/imdb/convert.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+
+use datafusion::dataframe::DataFrameWriteOptions;
+use datafusion_common::instant::Instant;
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+
+use datafusion::error::Result;
+use datafusion::prelude::*;
+use structopt::StructOpt;
+
+use datafusion::common::not_impl_err;
+
+use super::get_imdb_table_schema;
+use super::IMDB_TABLES;
+
+#[derive(Debug, StructOpt)]
+pub struct ConvertOpt {
+    /// Path to csv files
+    #[structopt(parse(from_os_str), required = true, short = "i", long = "input")]
+    input_path: PathBuf,
+
+    /// Output path
+    #[structopt(parse(from_os_str), required = true, short = "o", long = "output")]
+    output_path: PathBuf,
+
+    /// Output file format: `csv` or `parquet`
+    #[structopt(short = "f", long = "format")]
+    file_format: String,
+
+    /// Batch size when reading CSV or Parquet files
+    #[structopt(short = "s", long = "batch-size", default_value = "8192")]
+    batch_size: usize,
+}
+
+impl ConvertOpt {
+    pub async fn run(self) -> Result<()> {
+        let input_path = self.input_path.to_str().unwrap();
+        let output_path = self.output_path.to_str().unwrap();
+
+        for table in IMDB_TABLES {
+            let start = Instant::now();
+            let schema = get_imdb_table_schema(table);
+
+            let input_path = format!("{input_path}/{table}.csv");
+            let output_path = format!("{output_path}/{table}.parquet");
+            let options = CsvReadOptions::new()
+                .schema(&schema)
+                .has_header(false)
+                .delimiter(b',')
+                .escape(b'\\')
+                .file_extension(".csv");
+
+            let config = SessionConfig::new().with_batch_size(self.batch_size);
+            let ctx = SessionContext::new_with_config(config);
+
+            let mut csv = ctx.read_csv(&input_path, options).await?;
+
+            // Select all apart from the padding column
+            let selection = csv
+                .schema()
+                .iter()
+                .take(schema.fields.len())
+                .map(Expr::from)
+                .collect();
+
+            csv = csv.select(selection)?;
+
+            println!(
+                "Converting '{}' to {} files in directory '{}'",
+                &input_path, self.file_format, &output_path
+            );
+            match self.file_format.as_str() {
+                "csv" => {
+                    csv.write_csv(
+                        output_path.as_str(),
+                        DataFrameWriteOptions::new(),
+                        None,
+                    )
+                    .await?;
+                }
+                "parquet" => {
+                    csv.write_parquet(
+                        output_path.as_str(),
+                        DataFrameWriteOptions::new(),
+                        None,
+                    )
+                    .await?;
+                }
+                other => {
+                    return not_impl_err!("Invalid output format: {other}");
+                }
+            }
+            println!("Conversion completed in {} ms", start.elapsed().as_millis());
+        }
+        Ok(())
+    }
+}
diff --git a/benchmarks/src/imdb/mod.rs b/benchmarks/src/imdb/mod.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8e2977c0384e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/benchmarks/src/imdb/mod.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,205 @@
+// Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+// or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+// distributed with this work for additional information
+// regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+// to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+// "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+// with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+// software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+// "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+// KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+// specific language governing permissions and limitations
+// under the License.
+
+//! Benchmark derived from IMDB dataset.
+
+use datafusion::arrow::datatypes::{DataType, Field, Schema};
+mod convert;
+pub use convert::ConvertOpt;
+
+// we have 21 tables in the IMDB dataset
+pub const IMDB_TABLES: &[&str] = &[
+    "aka_name",
+    "aka_title",
+    "cast_info",
+    "char_name",
+    "comp_cast_type",
+    "company_name",
+    "company_type",
+    "complete_cast",
+    "info_type",
+    "keyword",
+    "kind_type",
+    "link_type",
+    "movie_companies",
+    "movie_info_idx",
+    "movie_keyword",
+    "movie_link",
+    "name",
+    "role_type",
+    "title",
+    "movie_info",
+    "person_info",
+];
+
+/// Get the schema for the IMDB dataset tables
+/// see benchmarks/data/imdb/schematext.sql
+pub fn get_imdb_table_schema(table: &str) -> Schema {
+    match table {
+        "aka_name" => Schema::new(vec![
+            Field::new("id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("person_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("name", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("imdb_index", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("name_pcode_cf", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("name_pcode_nf", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("surname_pcode", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("md5sum", DataType::Utf8, true),
+        ]),
+        "aka_title" => Schema::new(vec![
+            Field::new("id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("movie_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("title", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("imdb_index", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("kind_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("production_year", DataType::Int32, true),
+            Field::new("phonetic_code", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("episode_of_id", DataType::Int32, true),
+            Field::new("season_nr", DataType::Int32, true),
+            Field::new("episode_nr", DataType::Int32, true),
+            Field::new("note", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("md5sum", DataType::Utf8, true),
+        ]),
+        "cast_info" => Schema::new(vec![
+            Field::new("id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("person_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("movie_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("person_role_id", DataType::Int32, true),
+            Field::new("note", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("nr_order", DataType::Int32, true),
+            Field::new("role_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+        ]),
+        "char_name" => Schema::new(vec![
+            Field::new("id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("name", DataType::Utf8, false),
+            Field::new("imdb_index", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("imdb_id", DataType::Int32, true),
+            Field::new("name_pcode_nf", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("surname_pcode", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("md5sum", DataType::Utf8, true),
+        ]),
+        "comp_cast_type" => Schema::new(vec![
+            Field::new("id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("kind", DataType::Utf8, false),
+        ]),
+        "company_name" => Schema::new(vec![
+            Field::new("id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("name", DataType::Utf8, false),
+            Field::new("country_code", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("imdb_id", DataType::Int32, true),
+            Field::new("name_pcode_nf", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("name_pcode_sf", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("md5sum", DataType::Utf8, true),
+        ]),
+        "company_type" => Schema::new(vec![
+            Field::new("id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("kind", DataType::Utf8, true),
+        ]),
+        "complete_cast" => Schema::new(vec![
+            Field::new("id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("movie_id", DataType::Int32, true),
+            Field::new("subject_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("status_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+        ]),
+        "info_type" => Schema::new(vec![
+            Field::new("id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("info", DataType::Utf8, false),
+        ]),
+        "keyword" => Schema::new(vec![
+            Field::new("id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("keyword", DataType::Utf8, false),
+            Field::new("phonetic_code", DataType::Utf8, true),
+        ]),
+        "kind_type" => Schema::new(vec![
+            Field::new("id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("kind", DataType::Utf8, true),
+        ]),
+        "link_type" => Schema::new(vec![
+            Field::new("id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("link", DataType::Utf8, false),
+        ]),
+        "movie_companies" => Schema::new(vec![
+            Field::new("id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("movie_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("company_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("company_type_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("note", DataType::Utf8, true),
+        ]),
+        "movie_info_idx" => Schema::new(vec![
+            Field::new("id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("movie_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("info_type_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("info", DataType::Utf8, false),
+            Field::new("note", DataType::Utf8, true),
+        ]),
+        "movie_keyword" => Schema::new(vec![
+            Field::new("id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("movie_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("keyword_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+        ]),
+        "movie_link" => Schema::new(vec![
+            Field::new("id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("movie_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("linked_movie_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("link_type_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+        ]),
+        "name" => Schema::new(vec![
+            Field::new("id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("name", DataType::Utf8, false),
+            Field::new("imdb_index", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("imdb_id", DataType::Int32, true),
+            Field::new("gender", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("name_pcode_cf", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("name_pcode_nf", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("surname_pcode", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("md5sum", DataType::Utf8, true),
+        ]),
+        "role_type" => Schema::new(vec![
+            Field::new("id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("role", DataType::Utf8, false),
+        ]),
+        "title" => Schema::new(vec![
+            Field::new("id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("title", DataType::Utf8, false),
+            Field::new("imdb_index", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("kind_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("production_year", DataType::Int32, true),
+            Field::new("imdb_id", DataType::Int32, true),
+            Field::new("phonetic_code", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("episode_of_id", DataType::Int32, true),
+            Field::new("season_nr", DataType::Int32, true),
+            Field::new("episode_nr", DataType::Int32, true),
+            Field::new("series_years", DataType::Utf8, true),
+            Field::new("md5sum", DataType::Utf8, true),
+        ]),
+        "movie_info" => Schema::new(vec![
+            Field::new("id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("movie_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("info_type_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("info", DataType::Utf8, false),
+            Field::new("note", DataType::Utf8, true),
+        ]),
+        "person_info" => Schema::new(vec![
+            Field::new("id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("person_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("info_type_id", DataType::Int32, false),
+            Field::new("info", DataType::Utf8, false),
+            Field::new("note", DataType::Utf8, true),
+        ]),
+        _ => unimplemented!("Schema for table {} is not implemented", table),
+    }
+}
diff --git a/benchmarks/src/lib.rs b/benchmarks/src/lib.rs
index f81220aa2c94..52d81ca91816 100644
--- a/benchmarks/src/lib.rs
+++ b/benchmarks/src/lib.rs
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 //! DataFusion benchmark runner
 pub mod clickbench;
+pub mod imdb;
 pub mod parquet_filter;
 pub mod sort;
 pub mod tpch;