diff --git a/hudi-utilities/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/schema/DeleteSupportSchemaPostProcessor.java b/hudi-utilities/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/schema/DeleteSupportSchemaPostProcessor.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e58dc4e20611b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hudi-utilities/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/schema/DeleteSupportSchemaPostProcessor.java
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+/*
+ * 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.hudi.utilities.schema;
+
+import org.apache.hudi.common.config.TypedProperties;
+import org.apache.hudi.common.model.HoodieRecord;
+
+import org.apache.avro.Schema;
+import org.apache.log4j.LogManager;
+import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
+import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext;
+
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+/**
+ * An implementation of {@link SchemaPostProcessor} which will add a column named "_hoodie_is_deleted" to the end of
+ * a given schema.
+ */
+public class DeleteSupportSchemaPostProcessor extends SchemaPostProcessor {
+
+  private static final Logger LOG = LogManager.getLogger(DeleteSupportSchemaPostProcessor.class);
+
+  public DeleteSupportSchemaPostProcessor(TypedProperties props, JavaSparkContext jssc) {
+    super(props, jssc);
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public Schema processSchema(Schema schema) {
+
+    if (schema.getField(HoodieRecord.HOODIE_IS_DELETED) != null) {
+      LOG.warn(String.format("column %s already exists!", HoodieRecord.HOODIE_IS_DELETED));
+      return schema;
+    }
+
+    List<Schema.Field> sourceFields = schema.getFields();
+    List<Schema.Field> targetFields = new ArrayList<>(sourceFields.size() + 1);
+    // copy existing columns
+    for (Schema.Field sourceField : sourceFields) {
+      targetFields.add(new Schema.Field(sourceField.name(), sourceField.schema(), sourceField.doc(), sourceField.defaultVal()));
+    }
+    // add _hoodie_is_deleted column
+    targetFields.add(new Schema.Field(HoodieRecord.HOODIE_IS_DELETED, Schema.create(Schema.Type.BOOLEAN), null, false));
+
+    return Schema.createRecord(schema.getName(), schema.getDoc(), schema.getNamespace(), false, targetFields);
+  }
+
+}
+
+
diff --git a/hudi-utilities/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/schema/SparkAvroPostProcessor.java b/hudi-utilities/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/schema/SparkAvroPostProcessor.java
index 34549885cf8c9..3322b7b010385 100644
--- a/hudi-utilities/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/schema/SparkAvroPostProcessor.java
+++ b/hudi-utilities/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/schema/SparkAvroPostProcessor.java
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ public SparkAvroPostProcessor(TypedProperties props, JavaSparkContext jssc) {
   @Override
   public Schema processSchema(Schema schema) {
     return schema != null ? AvroConversionUtils.convertStructTypeToAvroSchema(
-        AvroConversionUtils.convertAvroSchemaToStructType(schema), RowBasedSchemaProvider.HOODIE_RECORD_STRUCT_NAME, 
+        AvroConversionUtils.convertAvroSchemaToStructType(schema), RowBasedSchemaProvider.HOODIE_RECORD_STRUCT_NAME,
         RowBasedSchemaProvider.HOODIE_RECORD_NAMESPACE) : null;
   }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/hudi-utilities/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/DummySchemaProvider.java b/hudi-utilities/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/DummySchemaProvider.java
index 2055406996f35..1ec3eb2f911f5 100644
--- a/hudi-utilities/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/DummySchemaProvider.java
+++ b/hudi-utilities/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/DummySchemaProvider.java
@@ -18,9 +18,10 @@
 
 package org.apache.hudi.utilities;
 
-import org.apache.avro.Schema;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.config.TypedProperties;
 import org.apache.hudi.utilities.schema.SchemaProvider;
+
+import org.apache.avro.Schema;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext;
 
 public class DummySchemaProvider extends SchemaProvider {
diff --git a/hudi-utilities/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/SparkAvroSchemaProvider.java b/hudi-utilities/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/SparkAvroSchemaProvider.java
index 90c0149b0906c..22dca7bd6389f 100644
--- a/hudi-utilities/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/SparkAvroSchemaProvider.java
+++ b/hudi-utilities/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/SparkAvroSchemaProvider.java
@@ -18,9 +18,10 @@
 
 package org.apache.hudi.utilities;
 
-import org.apache.avro.Schema;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.config.TypedProperties;
 import org.apache.hudi.utilities.schema.SchemaProvider;
+
+import org.apache.avro.Schema;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext;
 
 public class SparkAvroSchemaProvider extends SchemaProvider {
diff --git a/hudi-utilities/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/TestSchemaPostProcessor.java b/hudi-utilities/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/TestSchemaPostProcessor.java
index b9e9282923853..68cd994ba10ea 100644
--- a/hudi-utilities/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/TestSchemaPostProcessor.java
+++ b/hudi-utilities/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/TestSchemaPostProcessor.java
@@ -19,17 +19,17 @@
 package org.apache.hudi.utilities;
 
 import org.apache.hudi.common.config.TypedProperties;
+import org.apache.hudi.utilities.schema.DeleteSupportSchemaPostProcessor;
 import org.apache.hudi.utilities.schema.SchemaPostProcessor;
 import org.apache.hudi.utilities.schema.SchemaPostProcessor.Config;
 import org.apache.hudi.utilities.schema.SchemaProvider;
 import org.apache.hudi.utilities.schema.SparkAvroPostProcessor;
 import org.apache.hudi.utilities.testutils.UtilitiesTestBase;
+import org.apache.hudi.utilities.transform.FlatteningTransformer;
 
 import org.apache.avro.Schema;
 import org.apache.avro.Schema.Type;
 import org.apache.avro.SchemaBuilder;
-
-import org.apache.hudi.utilities.transform.FlatteningTransformer;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
@@ -82,6 +82,14 @@ public void testSparkAvro() throws IOException {
     assertNotNull(schema.getField("day"));
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testDeleteSupport() {
+    DeleteSupportSchemaPostProcessor processor = new DeleteSupportSchemaPostProcessor(properties, null);
+    Schema schema = new Schema.Parser().parse(ORIGINAL_SCHEMA);
+    Schema targetSchema = processor.processSchema(schema);
+    assertNotNull(targetSchema.getField("_hoodie_is_deleted"));
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void testSparkAvroSchema() throws IOException {
     SparkAvroPostProcessor processor = new SparkAvroPostProcessor(properties, null);