diff --git a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.2 b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.2
index afbdae055453..d6c4214a6ba7 100644
--- a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.2
+++ b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.2
@@ -129,13 +129,13 @@ opencsv-2.3.jar
 oro-2.0.8.jar
 osgi-resource-locator-1.0.1.jar
 paranamer-2.3.jar
-parquet-column-1.8.1.jar
-parquet-common-1.8.1.jar
-parquet-encoding-1.8.1.jar
-parquet-format-2.3.0-incubating.jar
-parquet-hadoop-1.8.1.jar
+parquet-column-1.9.0.jar
+parquet-common-1.9.0.jar
+parquet-encoding-1.9.0.jar
+parquet-format-2.3.1.jar
+parquet-hadoop-1.9.0.jar
 parquet-hadoop-bundle-1.6.0.jar
-parquet-jackson-1.8.1.jar
+parquet-jackson-1.9.0.jar
 pmml-model-1.2.15.jar
 pmml-schema-1.2.15.jar
 protobuf-java-2.5.0.jar
diff --git a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.3 b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.3
index adf3863f6718..7a34b45c37bb 100644
--- a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.3
+++ b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.3
@@ -136,13 +136,13 @@ opencsv-2.3.jar
 oro-2.0.8.jar
 osgi-resource-locator-1.0.1.jar
 paranamer-2.3.jar
-parquet-column-1.8.1.jar
-parquet-common-1.8.1.jar
-parquet-encoding-1.8.1.jar
-parquet-format-2.3.0-incubating.jar
-parquet-hadoop-1.8.1.jar
+parquet-column-1.9.0.jar
+parquet-common-1.9.0.jar
+parquet-encoding-1.9.0.jar
+parquet-format-2.3.1.jar
+parquet-hadoop-1.9.0.jar
 parquet-hadoop-bundle-1.6.0.jar
-parquet-jackson-1.8.1.jar
+parquet-jackson-1.9.0.jar
 pmml-model-1.2.15.jar
 pmml-schema-1.2.15.jar
 protobuf-java-2.5.0.jar
diff --git a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.4 b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.4
index 88e6b3fca08a..53f66cf45211 100644
--- a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.4
+++ b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.4
@@ -136,13 +136,13 @@ opencsv-2.3.jar
 oro-2.0.8.jar
 osgi-resource-locator-1.0.1.jar
 paranamer-2.3.jar
-parquet-column-1.8.1.jar
-parquet-common-1.8.1.jar
-parquet-encoding-1.8.1.jar
-parquet-format-2.3.0-incubating.jar
-parquet-hadoop-1.8.1.jar
+parquet-column-1.9.0.jar
+parquet-common-1.9.0.jar
+parquet-encoding-1.9.0.jar
+parquet-format-2.3.1.jar
+parquet-hadoop-1.9.0.jar
 parquet-hadoop-bundle-1.6.0.jar
-parquet-jackson-1.8.1.jar
+parquet-jackson-1.9.0.jar
 pmml-model-1.2.15.jar
 pmml-schema-1.2.15.jar
 protobuf-java-2.5.0.jar
diff --git a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.6 b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.6
index 15c5d9f205f2..383b5f02787d 100644
--- a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.6
+++ b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.6
@@ -144,13 +144,13 @@ opencsv-2.3.jar
 oro-2.0.8.jar
 osgi-resource-locator-1.0.1.jar
 paranamer-2.3.jar
-parquet-column-1.8.1.jar
-parquet-common-1.8.1.jar
-parquet-encoding-1.8.1.jar
-parquet-format-2.3.0-incubating.jar
-parquet-hadoop-1.8.1.jar
+parquet-column-1.9.0.jar
+parquet-common-1.9.0.jar
+parquet-encoding-1.9.0.jar
+parquet-format-2.3.1.jar
+parquet-hadoop-1.9.0.jar
 parquet-hadoop-bundle-1.6.0.jar
-parquet-jackson-1.8.1.jar
+parquet-jackson-1.9.0.jar
 pmml-model-1.2.15.jar
 pmml-schema-1.2.15.jar
 protobuf-java-2.5.0.jar
diff --git a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.7 b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.7
index 77fb5370d98b..895203dfbbe2 100644
--- a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.7
+++ b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.7
@@ -145,13 +145,13 @@ opencsv-2.3.jar
 oro-2.0.8.jar
 osgi-resource-locator-1.0.1.jar
 paranamer-2.3.jar
-parquet-column-1.8.1.jar
-parquet-common-1.8.1.jar
-parquet-encoding-1.8.1.jar
-parquet-format-2.3.0-incubating.jar
-parquet-hadoop-1.8.1.jar
+parquet-column-1.9.0.jar
+parquet-common-1.9.0.jar
+parquet-encoding-1.9.0.jar
+parquet-format-2.3.1.jar
+parquet-hadoop-1.9.0.jar
 parquet-hadoop-bundle-1.6.0.jar
-parquet-jackson-1.8.1.jar
+parquet-jackson-1.9.0.jar
 pmml-model-1.2.15.jar
 pmml-schema-1.2.15.jar
 protobuf-java-2.5.0.jar
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 4f12085d044f..aafb0113a0f8 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@
     <!-- Version used for internal directory structure -->
     <hive.version.short>1.2.1</hive.version.short>
     <derby.version>10.12.1.1</derby.version>
-    <parquet.version>1.8.1</parquet.version>
+    <parquet.version>1.9.0</parquet.version>
     <hive.parquet.version>1.6.0</hive.parquet.version>
     <jetty.version>9.2.16.v20160414</jetty.version>
     <javaxservlet.version>3.1.0</javaxservlet.version>
diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/VectorizedPlainValuesReader.java b/sql/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/VectorizedPlainValuesReader.java
index 98018b7f48bd..0fa1f118fb5a 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/VectorizedPlainValuesReader.java
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/VectorizedPlainValuesReader.java
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ public class VectorizedPlainValuesReader extends ValuesReader implements Vectori
   public VectorizedPlainValuesReader() {
   }
 
+  @Override
+  public void initFromPage(int valueCount, ByteBuffer page, int offset) {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+  }
+
   @Override
   public void initFromPage(int valueCount, byte[] bytes, int offset) throws IOException {
     this.buffer = bytes;
diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/VectorizedRleValuesReader.java b/sql/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/VectorizedRleValuesReader.java
index 62157389013b..865785bd35f5 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/VectorizedRleValuesReader.java
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/VectorizedRleValuesReader.java
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
 
 import org.apache.spark.sql.execution.vectorized.ColumnVector;
 
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+
 /**
  * A values reader for Parquet's run-length encoded data. This is based off of the version in
  * parquet-mr with these changes:
@@ -80,6 +82,11 @@ public VectorizedRleValuesReader(int bitWidth) {
     init(bitWidth);
   }
 
+  @Override
+  public void initFromPage(int valueCount, ByteBuffer page, int offset) {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
+  }
+
   @Override
   public void initFromPage(int valueCount, byte[] page, int start) {
     this.offset = start;
diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetSchemaConverter.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetSchemaConverter.scala
index b4f36ce3752c..fe1849484780 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetSchemaConverter.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetSchemaConverter.scala
@@ -546,21 +546,9 @@ private[parquet] class ParquetSchemaConverter(
 private[parquet] object ParquetSchemaConverter {
   val SPARK_PARQUET_SCHEMA_NAME = "spark_schema"
 
-  // !! HACK ALERT !!
-  //
-  // PARQUET-363 & PARQUET-278: parquet-mr 1.8.1 doesn't allow constructing empty GroupType,
-  // which prevents us to avoid selecting any columns for queries like `SELECT COUNT(*) FROM t`.
-  // This issue has been fixed in parquet-mr 1.8.2-SNAPSHOT.
-  //
-  // To workaround this problem, here we first construct a `MessageType` with a single dummy
-  // field, and then remove the field to obtain an empty `MessageType`.
-  //
-  // TODO Reverts this change after upgrading parquet-mr to 1.8.2+
   val EMPTY_MESSAGE = Types
       .buildMessage()
-      .required(PrimitiveType.PrimitiveTypeName.INT32).named("dummy")
       .named(ParquetSchemaConverter.SPARK_PARQUET_SCHEMA_NAME)
-  EMPTY_MESSAGE.getFields.clear()
 
   def checkFieldName(name: String): Unit = {
     // ,;{}()\n\t= and space are special characters in Parquet schema