diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index aa67d3d37a..a0cecb0414 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -19,3 +19,6 @@ target/
 .cache
 *~
 mvn_install.log
+.factorypath
+bin/
+
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index d33051f57f..374d9aa820 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,10 +1,36 @@
-language: java
-before_install:
-  - bash dev/travis-before_install.sh
+language: generic
+
+services:
+  - docker
 
 env:
-  - HADOOP_PROFILE=default TEST_CODECS=uncompressed,brotli
-  - HADOOP_PROFILE=default TEST_CODECS=gzip,snappy
+  global:
+    - JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+    - IMAGE=parquet-mr
+    - CACHE_FOLDER=$HOME/docker-images
+    - CACHE_FILE=${CACHE_FOLDER}/parquet-mr.tgz
+  matrix:
+    - TEST_CODECS=uncompressed,brotli
+    - TEST_CODECS=gzip,snappy
+
+cache:
+  directories:
+    - "$HOME/.m2"
+    - ${CACHE_FOLDER}
+
+before_install:
+  - if [[ -f ${CACHE_FILE} ]]; then
+      docker load -i "${CACHE_FILE}";
+    else
+      docker build -f dev/Dockerfile -t "${IMAGE}" "${PWD}";
+      mkdir -p "${CACHE_FOLDER}";
+      docker save "${IMAGE}" | gzip -c > "${CACHE_FILE}";
+    fi
+
+install: docker run -v $HOME/.m2:/root/.m2 -v ${PWD}:/parquet-mr -e JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME -e TEST_CODECS=$TEST_CODECS -i -t parquet-mr /bin/bash -c "cd /parquet-mr && mvn install --batch-mode -DskipTests=true -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true -Dsource.skip=true | pv -fbi 60 > mvn_install.log || (cat mvn_install.log && false)"
+
+script: docker run -v $HOME/.m2:/root/.m2 -v ${PWD}:/parquet-mr -e JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME -e TEST_CODECS=$TEST_CODECS -i -t parquet-mr /bin/bash -c "cd /parquet-mr && mvn verify javadoc:javadoc"
 
-install: mvn install --batch-mode -DskipTests=true -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true -Dsource.skip=true | pv -fbi 60 > mvn_install.log || (cat mvn_install.log && false)
-script: mvn verify javadoc:javadoc -P $HADOOP_PROFILE
+before_cache:
+  - rm -Rf $HOME/.m2/repository/org/apache/parquet
+  - find $HOME/.m2/repository/ -name *SNAPSHOT | xargs rm -Rf
diff --git a/dev/Dockerfile b/dev/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..cc4f679fba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+###############################################################################
+#  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.
+###############################################################################
+
+FROM thrift:0.12.0
+
+RUN set -ex; \
+  apt-get update && \
+  apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+    maven \
+    openjdk-8-jdk-headless \
+    openjdk-8-jre-headless \
+    pv && \
+  rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
diff --git a/dev/travis-before_install-master.sh b/dev/travis-before_install-master.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 2c865ce30f..0000000000
--- a/dev/travis-before_install-master.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-# 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.
-
-################################################################################
-# This is a branch-specific script that gets invoked at the end of
-# travis-before_install.sh. It is run for the master branch only.
-################################################################################
-
-fail_the_build=
-reduced_pom="$(tempfile)"
-shopt -s globstar # Enables ** to match files in subdirectories recursively
-for pom in **/pom.xml
-do
-  # Removes the project/version and project/parent/version elements, because
-  # those are allowed to have SNAPSHOT in them. Also removes comments.
-  xmlstarlet ed -N pom='http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0' \
-             -d '/pom:project/pom:version|/pom:project/pom:parent/pom:version|//comment()' "$pom" > "$reduced_pom"
-  if grep -q SNAPSHOT "$reduced_pom"
-  then
-    if [[ ! "$fail_the_build" ]]
-    then
-      printf "Error: POM files in the master branch can not refer to SNAPSHOT versions.\n"
-      fail_the_build=YES
-    fi
-    printf "\nOffending POM file: %s\nOffending content:\n" "$pom"
-    # Removes every element that does not have SNAPSHOT in it or its
-    # descendants. As a result, we get a skeleton of the POM file with only the
-    # offending parts.
-    xmlstarlet ed -d "//*[count((.|.//*)[contains(text(), 'SNAPSHOT')]) = 0]" "$reduced_pom"
-  fi
-done
-rm "$reduced_pom"
-if [[ "$fail_the_build" ]]
-then
-   exit 1
-fi
diff --git a/dev/travis-before_install.sh b/dev/travis-before_install.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index c87c8b5cad..0000000000
--- a/dev/travis-before_install.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-# 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.
-
-################################################################################
-# This script gets invoked by .travis.yml in the before_install step
-################################################################################
-
-export THIFT_VERSION=0.12.0
-
-set -e
-date
-sudo apt-get update -qq
-sudo apt-get install -qq build-essential pv autoconf automake libtool curl make \
-   g++ unzip libboost-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-program-options-dev \
-   libevent-dev automake libtool flex bison pkg-config g++ libssl-dev xmlstarlet
-date
-pwd
-wget -nv https://archive.apache.org/dist/thrift/${THIFT_VERSION}/thrift-${THIFT_VERSION}.tar.gz
-tar zxf thrift-${THIFT_VERSION}.tar.gz
-cd thrift-${THIFT_VERSION}
-chmod +x ./configure
-./configure --disable-gen-erl --disable-gen-hs --without-ruby --without-haskell --without-erlang --without-php --without-nodejs
-sudo make install
-cd ..
-branch_specific_script="dev/travis-before_install-${TRAVIS_BRANCH}.sh"
-if [[ -e "$branch_specific_script" ]]
-then
-  . "$branch_specific_script"
-fi
-date
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9db8c0cb13..4f9dff055e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -480,6 +480,7 @@
             <exclude>**/*.md.vm</exclude>
             <exclude>**/.classpath</exclude>
             <exclude>**/.project</exclude>
+            <exclude>**/*.factorypath</exclude>
             <exclude>**/.settings/**</exclude>
             <exclude>**/build/**</exclude>
             <exclude>**/target/**</exclude>