diff --git a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/HadoopReadOptions.java b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/HadoopReadOptions.java
index b16a8c4ffa..8e83bc9ba2 100644
--- a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/HadoopReadOptions.java
+++ b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/HadoopReadOptions.java
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 
 import java.util.Map;
 
+import static org.apache.parquet.hadoop.ParquetInputFormat.ALLOCATOR_DIRECT_BYTEBUFFER_ENABLED;
 import static org.apache.parquet.hadoop.ParquetInputFormat.COLUMN_INDEX_FILTERING_ENABLED;
 import static org.apache.parquet.hadoop.ParquetInputFormat.DICTIONARY_FILTERING_ENABLED;
 import static org.apache.parquet.hadoop.ParquetInputFormat.BLOOM_FILTERING_ENABLED;
@@ -91,6 +92,7 @@ public Builder(Configuration conf) {
       useStatsFilter(conf.getBoolean(STATS_FILTERING_ENABLED, true));
       useRecordFilter(conf.getBoolean(RECORD_FILTERING_ENABLED, true));
       useColumnIndexFilter(conf.getBoolean(COLUMN_INDEX_FILTERING_ENABLED, true));
+      useDirectByteBufferAllocator(conf.getBoolean(ALLOCATOR_DIRECT_BYTEBUFFER_ENABLED, false));
       usePageChecksumVerification(conf.getBoolean(PAGE_VERIFY_CHECKSUM_ENABLED,
         usePageChecksumVerification));
       useBloomFilter(conf.getBoolean(BLOOM_FILTERING_ENABLED, true));
diff --git a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/ParquetReadOptions.java b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/ParquetReadOptions.java
index 2fdca3be28..72fa7687dc 100644
--- a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/ParquetReadOptions.java
+++ b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/ParquetReadOptions.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 package org.apache.parquet;
 
 import org.apache.parquet.bytes.ByteBufferAllocator;
+import org.apache.parquet.bytes.DirectByteBufferAllocator;
 import org.apache.parquet.bytes.HeapByteBufferAllocator;
 import org.apache.parquet.compression.CompressionCodecFactory;
 import org.apache.parquet.filter2.compat.FilterCompat;
@@ -242,6 +243,13 @@ public Builder withRecordFilter(FilterCompat.Filter rowGroupFilter) {
       return this;
     }
 
+    public Builder useDirectByteBufferAllocator(boolean useDirectByteBuffer) {
+      if (useDirectByteBuffer) {
+        this.allocator = new DirectByteBufferAllocator();
+      }
+      return this;
+    }
+
     public Builder withRange(long start, long end) {
       this.metadataFilter = ParquetMetadataConverter.range(start, end);
       return this;
diff --git a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/ParquetInputFormat.java b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/ParquetInputFormat.java
index f46f18211a..c201e8d6c0 100644
--- a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/ParquetInputFormat.java
+++ b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/ParquetInputFormat.java
@@ -144,6 +144,11 @@ public class ParquetInputFormat<T> extends FileInputFormat<Void, T> {
    */
   public static final String BLOOM_FILTERING_ENABLED = "parquet.filter.bloom.enabled";
 
+  /**
+   * key to configure whether direct bytebuffer allocator is enabled
+   */
+  public static final String ALLOCATOR_DIRECT_BYTEBUFFER_ENABLED = "parquet.allocator.direct.enabled";
+
   /**
    * key to turn on or off task side metadata loading (default true)
    * if true then metadata is read on the task side and some tasks may finish immediately.