diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/jdbc/ApacheDrillDialect.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/jdbc/ApacheDrillDialect.scala
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..12b7b37c5161
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/jdbc/ApacheDrillDialect.scala
@@ -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.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.spark.sql.jdbc
+
+
+private case object ApacheDrillDialect extends JdbcDialect {
+
+  override def canHandle(url : String): Boolean = url.startsWith("jdbc:drill")
+
+  override def quoteIdentifier(colName: String): String = {
+    s"`$colName`"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/jdbc/JdbcDialects.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/jdbc/JdbcDialects.scala
index 7c38ed68c041..a47eec2201a3 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/jdbc/JdbcDialects.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/jdbc/JdbcDialects.scala
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ object JdbcDialects {
   registerDialect(DerbyDialect)
   registerDialect(OracleDialect)
   registerDialect(TeradataDialect)
+  registerDialect(ApacheDrillDialect)
 
   /**
    * Fetch the JdbcDialect class corresponding to a given database url.