diff --git a/ibis/__init__.py b/ibis/__init__.py
index bd4cb7596053d..be2c227bef6ca 100644
--- a/ibis/__init__.py
+++ b/ibis/__init__.py
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@
     # pip install ibis-framework[spark]
     import ibis.spark.api as spark  # noqa: F401
 
+with suppress(ImportError):
+    import ibis.pyspark.api as pyspark
+
 
 def hdfs_connect(
     host='localhost',
diff --git a/ibis/pyspark/api.py b/ibis/pyspark/api.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8539532849427
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ibis/pyspark/api.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+from ibis.pyspark.client import PysparkClient
+
+
+def connect(**kwargs):
+    """
+    Create a `SparkClient` for use with Ibis. Pipes **kwargs into SparkClient,
+    which pipes them into SparkContext. See documentation for SparkContext:
+    https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/api/python/_modules/pyspark/context.html#SparkContext
+    """
+    client = PysparkClient(**kwargs)
+
+    return client
diff --git a/ibis/pyspark/client.py b/ibis/pyspark/client.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..fd0890a6f9a09
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ibis/pyspark/client.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+from ibis.spark.client import SparkClient
+from ibis.pyspark.operations import PysparkTable
+from ibis.pyspark.compiler import translate
+
+class PysparkClient(SparkClient):
+    """
+    An ibis client that uses Pyspark SQL Dataframe
+    """
+
+    dialect = None
+    table_class = PysparkTable
+
+    def compile(self, expr, *args, **kwargs):
+        """Compile an ibis expression to a Pyspark DataFrame object
+        """
+        return translate(expr)
+
+    def execute(self, df, params=None, limit='default', **kwargs):
+        return df.toPandas()
diff --git a/ibis/pyspark/compiler.py b/ibis/pyspark/compiler.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..fa02e1be9d7b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ibis/pyspark/compiler.py
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+import ibis.common as com
+import ibis.sql.compiler as comp
+import ibis.expr.operations as ops
+
+
+from ibis.pyspark.operations import PysparkTable
+from ibis.sql.compiler import Dialect
+
+_operation_registry = {
+}
+
+class PysparkExprTranslator:
+    _registry = _operation_registry
+
+    @classmethod
+    def compiles(cls, klass):
+        def decorator(f):
+            cls._registry[klass] = f
+            return f
+
+        return decorator
+
+    def translate(self, expr):
+        # The operation node type the typed expression wraps
+        op = expr.op()
+
+        if type(op) in self._registry:
+            formatter = self._registry[type(op)]
+            return formatter(self, expr)
+        else:
+            raise com.OperationNotDefinedError(
+                'No translation rule for {}'.format(type(op))
+            )
+
+
+class PysparkDialect(Dialect):
+    translator = PysparkExprTranslator
+
+
+compiles = PysparkExprTranslator.compiles
+
+@compiles(PysparkTable)
+def compile_datasource(t, expr):
+    op = expr.op()
+    name, _, client = op.args
+    return client._session.table(name)
+
+@compiles(ops.Selection)
+def compile_selection(t, expr):
+    op = expr.op()
+    src_table = t.translate(op.selections[0])
+    for selection in op.selections[1:]:
+        column_name = selection.get_name()
+        column = t.translate(selection)
+        src_table = src_table.withColumn(column_name, column)
+
+    return src_table
+
+
+@compiles(ops.TableColumn)
+def compile_column(t, expr):
+    op = expr.op()
+    return t.translate(op.table)[op.name]
+
+
+t = PysparkExprTranslator()
+
+def translate(expr):
+    return t.translate(expr)
diff --git a/ibis/pyspark/operations.py b/ibis/pyspark/operations.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..ccc8025d5d6ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ibis/pyspark/operations.py
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+import ibis.expr.operations as ops
+
+class PysparkTable(ops.DatabaseTable):
+    pass
diff --git a/ibis/pyspark/tests/test_basic.py b/ibis/pyspark/tests/test_basic.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..0b69f4edb0d92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ibis/pyspark/tests/test_basic.py
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+import pandas as pd
+import pandas.util.testing as tm
+import pytest
+
+import ibis
+
+@pytest.fixture(scope='session')
+def client():
+    client = ibis.pyspark.connect()
+    df = client._session.range(0, 10)
+    df.createTempView('table1')
+    return client
+
+
+def test_basic(client):
+    table = client.table('table1')
+    result = table.compile().toPandas()
+    expected = pd.DataFrame({'id': range(0, 10)})
+
+    tm.assert_frame_equal(result, expected)
+
+
+def test_projection(client):
+    import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()
+    table = client.table('table1')
+    result1 = table.mutate(v=table['id']).compile().toPandas()
+
+    expected1 = pd.DataFrame(
+        {
+            'id': range(0, 10),
+            'v': range(0, 10)
+        }
+    )
+
+    result2 = table.mutate(v=table['id']).mutate(v2=table['id']).compile().toPandas()
+
+    expected2 = pd.DataFrame(
+        {
+            'id': range(0, 10),
+            'v': range(0, 10),
+            'v2': range(0, 10)
+        }
+    )
+
+    tm.assert_frame_equal(result1, expected1)
+    tm.assert_frame_equal(result2, expected2)
+
+
+def test_udf(client):
+    table = client.table('table1')