diff --git a/hudi-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/io/storage/HoodieParquetReader.java b/hudi-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/io/storage/HoodieParquetReader.java
index 9ad07dfafbf60..dc368a2e08214 100644
--- a/hudi-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/io/storage/HoodieParquetReader.java
+++ b/hudi-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/io/storage/HoodieParquetReader.java
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@
 package org.apache.hudi.io.storage;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Set;
 
 import org.apache.avro.Schema;
@@ -30,14 +32,17 @@
 import org.apache.hudi.common.model.HoodieFileFormat;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.util.BaseFileUtils;
 import org.apache.hudi.common.util.ParquetReaderIterator;
+
 import org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroParquetReader;
 import org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroReadSupport;
 import org.apache.parquet.hadoop.ParquetReader;
 
 public class HoodieParquetReader<R extends IndexedRecord> implements HoodieFileReader<R> {
+  
   private final Path path;
   private final Configuration conf;
   private final BaseFileUtils parquetUtils;
+  private List<ParquetReaderIterator> readerIterators = new ArrayList<>();
 
   public HoodieParquetReader(Configuration configuration, Path path) {
     this.conf = configuration;
@@ -64,7 +69,9 @@ public Set<String> filterRowKeys(Set<String> candidateRowKeys) {
   public Iterator<R> getRecordIterator(Schema schema) throws IOException {
     AvroReadSupport.setAvroReadSchema(conf, schema);
     ParquetReader<R> reader = AvroParquetReader.<R>builder(path).withConf(conf).build();
-    return new ParquetReaderIterator<>(reader);
+    ParquetReaderIterator parquetReaderIterator = new ParquetReaderIterator<>(reader);
+    readerIterators.add(parquetReaderIterator);
+    return parquetReaderIterator;
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -74,6 +81,7 @@ public Schema getSchema() {
 
   @Override
   public void close() {
+    readerIterators.forEach(entry -> entry.close());
   }
 
   @Override
diff --git a/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/hudi/HoodieBaseRelation.scala b/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/hudi/HoodieBaseRelation.scala
index ac2937e57ea16..4fc86f729b056 100644
--- a/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/hudi/HoodieBaseRelation.scala
+++ b/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/hudi/HoodieBaseRelation.scala
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ import org.apache.hudi.common.util.StringUtils
 import org.apache.hudi.common.util.ValidationUtils.checkState
 import org.apache.hudi.io.storage.HoodieHFileReader
 import org.apache.hudi.metadata.HoodieTableMetadata
+import org.apache.spark.TaskContext
 import org.apache.spark.execution.datasources.HoodieInMemoryFileIndex
 import org.apache.spark.internal.Logging
 import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ import org.apache.spark.sql.sources.{BaseRelation, Filter, PrunedFilteredScan}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructType
 import org.apache.spark.sql.{Row, SQLContext, SparkSession}
 
+import java.io.Closeable
 import scala.collection.JavaConverters._
 import scala.util.Try
 
@@ -333,7 +335,13 @@ object HoodieBaseRelation {
     partitionedFile => {
       val extension = FSUtils.getFileExtension(partitionedFile.filePath)
       if (HoodieFileFormat.PARQUET.getFileExtension.equals(extension)) {
-        parquetReader.apply(partitionedFile)
+        val iter = parquetReader.apply(partitionedFile)
+        if (iter.isInstanceOf[Closeable]) {
+          // register a callback to close parquetReader which will be executed on task completion.
+          // when tasks finished, this method will be called, and release resources.
+          Option(TaskContext.get()).foreach(_.addTaskCompletionListener[Unit](_ => iter.asInstanceOf[Closeable].close()))
+        }
+        iter
       } else if (HoodieFileFormat.HFILE.getFileExtension.equals(extension)) {
         hfileReader.apply(partitionedFile)
       } else {