diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/io/NioBufferedFileInputStream.java b/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/io/NioBufferedFileInputStream.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f6d1288cb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/io/NioBufferedFileInputStream.java
@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed 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.
+ */
+package org.apache.spark.io;
+
+import org.apache.spark.storage.StorageUtils;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
+import java.nio.file.StandardOpenOption;
+
+/**
+ * {@link InputStream} implementation which uses direct buffer
+ * to read a file to avoid extra copy of data between Java and
+ * native memory which happens when using {@link java.io.BufferedInputStream}.
+ * Unfortunately, this is not something already available in JDK,
+ * {@link sun.nio.ch.ChannelInputStream} supports reading a file using nio,
+ * but does not support buffering.
+ */
+public final class NioBufferedFileInputStream extends InputStream {
+
+  private static final int DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE_BYTES = 8192;
+
+  private final ByteBuffer byteBuffer;
+
+  private final FileChannel fileChannel;
+
+  public NioBufferedFileInputStream(File file, int bufferSizeInBytes) throws IOException {
+    byteBuffer = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(bufferSizeInBytes);
+    fileChannel = FileChannel.open(file.toPath(), StandardOpenOption.READ);
+    byteBuffer.flip();
+  }
+
+  public NioBufferedFileInputStream(File file) throws IOException {
+    this(file, DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE_BYTES);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Checks weather data is left to be read from the input stream.
+   * @return true if data is left, false otherwise
+   * @throws IOException
+   */
+  private boolean refill() throws IOException {
+    if (!byteBuffer.hasRemaining()) {
+      byteBuffer.clear();
+      int nRead = 0;
+      while (nRead == 0) {
+        nRead = fileChannel.read(byteBuffer);
+      }
+      if (nRead < 0) {
+        return false;
+      }
+      byteBuffer.flip();
+    }
+    return true;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public synchronized int read() throws IOException {
+    if (!refill()) {
+      return -1;
+    }
+    return byteBuffer.get() & 0xFF;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public synchronized int read(byte[] b, int offset, int len) throws IOException {
+    if (offset < 0 || len < 0 || offset + len < 0 || offset + len > b.length) {
+      throw new IndexOutOfBoundsException();
+    }
+    if (!refill()) {
+      return -1;
+    }
+    len = Math.min(len, byteBuffer.remaining());
+    byteBuffer.get(b, offset, len);
+    return len;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public synchronized int available() throws IOException {
+    return byteBuffer.remaining();
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public synchronized long skip(long n) throws IOException {
+    if (n <= 0L) {
+      return 0L;
+    }
+    if (byteBuffer.remaining() >= n) {
+      // The buffered content is enough to skip
+      byteBuffer.position(byteBuffer.position() + (int) n);
+      return n;
+    }
+    long skippedFromBuffer = byteBuffer.remaining();
+    long toSkipFromFileChannel = n - skippedFromBuffer;
+    // Discard everything we have read in the buffer.
+    byteBuffer.position(0);
+    byteBuffer.flip();
+    return skippedFromBuffer + skipFromFileChannel(toSkipFromFileChannel);
+  }
+
+  private long skipFromFileChannel(long n) throws IOException {
+    long currentFilePosition = fileChannel.position();
+    long size = fileChannel.size();
+    if (n > size - currentFilePosition) {
+      fileChannel.position(size);
+      return size - currentFilePosition;
+    } else {
+      fileChannel.position(currentFilePosition + n);
+      return n;
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public synchronized void close() throws IOException {
+    fileChannel.close();
+    StorageUtils.dispose(byteBuffer);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  protected void finalize() throws IOException {
+    close();
+  }
+}
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/util/collection/unsafe/sort/UnsafeSorterSpillReader.java b/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/util/collection/unsafe/sort/UnsafeSorterSpillReader.java
index e6d9766c31..a658e5eb47 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/util/collection/unsafe/sort/UnsafeSorterSpillReader.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/util/collection/unsafe/sort/UnsafeSorterSpillReader.java
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import com.google.common.io.ByteStreams;
 import com.google.common.io.Closeables;
 
 import org.apache.spark.SparkEnv;
+import org.apache.spark.io.NioBufferedFileInputStream;
 import org.apache.spark.serializer.SerializerManager;
 import org.apache.spark.storage.BlockId;
 import org.apache.spark.unsafe.Platform;
@@ -69,8 +70,8 @@ public final class UnsafeSorterSpillReader extends UnsafeSorterIterator implemen
       bufferSizeBytes = DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE_BYTES;
     }
 
-    final BufferedInputStream bs =
-        new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(file), (int) bufferSizeBytes);
+    final InputStream bs =
+        new NioBufferedFileInputStream(file, (int) bufferSizeBytes);
     try {
       this.in = serializerManager.wrapStream(blockId, bs);
       this.din = new DataInputStream(this.in);
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/shuffle/IndexShuffleBlockResolver.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/shuffle/IndexShuffleBlockResolver.scala
index 8d6396bede..91858f0912 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/shuffle/IndexShuffleBlockResolver.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/shuffle/IndexShuffleBlockResolver.scala
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ import com.google.common.io.ByteStreams
 
 import org.apache.spark.{SparkConf, SparkEnv}
 import org.apache.spark.internal.Logging
+import org.apache.spark.io.NioBufferedFileInputStream
 import org.apache.spark.network.buffer.{FileSegmentManagedBuffer, ManagedBuffer}
 import org.apache.spark.network.netty.SparkTransportConf
 import org.apache.spark.shuffle.IndexShuffleBlockResolver.NOOP_REDUCE_ID
@@ -89,7 +90,7 @@ private[spark] class IndexShuffleBlockResolver(
     val lengths = new Array[Long](blocks)
     // Read the lengths of blocks
     val in = try {
-      new DataInputStream(new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(index)))
+      new DataInputStream(new NioBufferedFileInputStream(index))
     } catch {
       case e: IOException =>
         return null
diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/io/NioBufferedFileInputStreamSuite.java b/core/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/io/NioBufferedFileInputStreamSuite.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2c1a34a607
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/apache/spark/io/NioBufferedFileInputStreamSuite.java
@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+/*
+ * 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.
+ */
+package org.apache.spark.io;
+
+import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomUtils;
+import org.junit.After;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+
+/**
+ * Tests functionality of {@link NioBufferedFileInputStream}
+ */
+public class NioBufferedFileInputStreamSuite {
+
+  private byte[] randomBytes;
+
+  private File inputFile;
+
+  @Before
+  public void setUp() throws IOException {
+    // Create a byte array of size 2 MB with random bytes
+    randomBytes =  RandomUtils.nextBytes(2 * 1024 * 1024);
+    inputFile = File.createTempFile("temp-file", ".tmp");
+    FileUtils.writeByteArrayToFile(inputFile, randomBytes);
+  }
+
+  @After
+  public void tearDown() {
+    inputFile.delete();
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testReadOneByte() throws IOException {
+    InputStream inputStream = new NioBufferedFileInputStream(inputFile);
+    for (int i = 0; i < randomBytes.length; i++) {
+      assertEquals(randomBytes[i], (byte) inputStream.read());
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testReadMultipleBytes() throws IOException {
+    InputStream inputStream = new NioBufferedFileInputStream(inputFile);
+    byte[] readBytes = new byte[8 * 1024];
+    int i = 0;
+    while (i < randomBytes.length) {
+      int read = inputStream.read(readBytes, 0, 8 * 1024);
+      for (int j = 0; j < read; j++) {
+        assertEquals(randomBytes[i], readBytes[j]);
+        i++;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testBytesSkipped() throws IOException {
+    InputStream inputStream = new NioBufferedFileInputStream(inputFile);
+    assertEquals(1024, inputStream.skip(1024));
+    for (int i = 1024; i < randomBytes.length; i++) {
+      assertEquals(randomBytes[i], (byte) inputStream.read());
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testBytesSkippedAfterRead() throws IOException {
+    InputStream inputStream = new NioBufferedFileInputStream(inputFile);
+    for (int i = 0; i < 1024; i++) {
+      assertEquals(randomBytes[i], (byte) inputStream.read());
+    }
+    assertEquals(1024, inputStream.skip(1024));
+    for (int i = 2048; i < randomBytes.length; i++) {
+      assertEquals(randomBytes[i], (byte) inputStream.read());
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testNegativeBytesSkippedAfterRead() throws IOException {
+    InputStream inputStream = new NioBufferedFileInputStream(inputFile);
+    for (int i = 0; i < 1024; i++) {
+      assertEquals(randomBytes[i], (byte) inputStream.read());
+    }
+    // Skipping negative bytes should essential be a no-op
+    assertEquals(0, inputStream.skip(-1));
+    assertEquals(0, inputStream.skip(-1024));
+    assertEquals(0, inputStream.skip(Long.MIN_VALUE));
+    assertEquals(1024, inputStream.skip(1024));
+    for (int i = 2048; i < randomBytes.length; i++) {
+      assertEquals(randomBytes[i], (byte) inputStream.read());
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testSkipFromFileChannel() throws IOException {
+    InputStream inputStream = new NioBufferedFileInputStream(inputFile, 10);
+    // Since the buffer is smaller than the skipped bytes, this will guarantee
+    // we skip from underlying file channel.
+    assertEquals(1024, inputStream.skip(1024));
+    for (int i = 1024; i < 2048; i++) {
+      assertEquals(randomBytes[i], (byte) inputStream.read());
+    }
+    assertEquals(256, inputStream.skip(256));
+    assertEquals(256, inputStream.skip(256));
+    assertEquals(512, inputStream.skip(512));
+    for (int i = 3072; i < randomBytes.length; i++) {
+      assertEquals(randomBytes[i], (byte) inputStream.read());
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testBytesSkippedAfterEOF() throws IOException {
+    InputStream inputStream = new NioBufferedFileInputStream(inputFile);
+    assertEquals(randomBytes.length, inputStream.skip(randomBytes.length + 1));
+    assertEquals(-1, inputStream.read());
+  }
+}
diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/python/RowQueue.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/python/RowQueue.scala
index 422a3f862d..cd1e77f524 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/python/RowQueue.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/python/RowQueue.scala
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import java.io._
 import com.google.common.io.Closeables
 
 import org.apache.spark.SparkException
+import org.apache.spark.io.NioBufferedFileInputStream
 import org.apache.spark.memory.{MemoryConsumer, TaskMemoryManager}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.UnsafeRow
 import org.apache.spark.unsafe.Platform
@@ -130,7 +131,7 @@ private[python] case class DiskRowQueue(file: File, fields: Int) extends RowQueu
     if (out != null) {
       out.close()
       out = null
-      in = new DataInputStream(new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(file.toString)))
+      in = new DataInputStream(new NioBufferedFileInputStream(file))
     }
 
     if (unreadBytes > 0) {