diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/BlockRDD.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/BlockRDD.scala
index 2673ec22509e9..fffa1911f5bc2 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/BlockRDD.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/BlockRDD.scala
@@ -84,5 +84,9 @@ class BlockRDD[T: ClassTag](@transient sc: SparkContext, @transient val blockIds
         "Attempted to use %s after its blocks have been removed!".format(toString))
     }
   }
+
+  protected def getBlockIdLocations(): Map[BlockId, Seq[String]] = {
+    locations_
+  }
 }
 
diff --git a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/rdd/HDFSBackedBlockRDD.scala b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/rdd/HDFSBackedBlockRDD.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..dec2f1b56b2da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/rdd/HDFSBackedBlockRDD.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+/*
+ * 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.streaming.rdd
+
+import scala.reflect.ClassTag
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration
+
+import org.apache.spark.broadcast.Broadcast
+import org.apache.spark.rdd.BlockRDD
+import org.apache.spark.storage.{BlockId, StorageLevel}
+import org.apache.spark.streaming.util.{WriteAheadLogFileSegment, HdfsUtils, WriteAheadLogRandomReader}
+import org.apache.spark._
+
+private[streaming]
+class HDFSBackedBlockRDDPartition(
+  val blockId: BlockId, idx: Int, val segment: WriteAheadLogFileSegment) extends Partition {
+  val index = idx
+}
+
+private[streaming]
+class HDFSBackedBlockRDD[T: ClassTag](
+    @transient sc: SparkContext,
+    @transient hadoopConfiguration: Configuration,
+    @transient override val blockIds: Array[BlockId],
+    @transient val segments: Array[WriteAheadLogFileSegment],
+    val storeInBlockManager: Boolean,
+    val storageLevel: StorageLevel
+  ) extends BlockRDD[T](sc, blockIds) {
+
+  if (blockIds.length != segments.length) {
+    throw new IllegalStateException("Number of block ids must be the same as number of segments!")
+  }
+
+  // Hadoop Configuration is not serializable, so broadcast it as a serializable.
+  val broadcastedHadoopConf = sc.broadcast(new SerializableWritable(hadoopConfiguration))
+    .asInstanceOf[Broadcast[SerializableWritable[Configuration]]]
+  override def getPartitions: Array[Partition] = {
+    assertValid()
+    (0 until blockIds.size).map { i =>
+      new HDFSBackedBlockRDDPartition(blockIds(i), i, segments(i))
+    }.toArray
+  }
+
+  override def compute(split: Partition, context: TaskContext): Iterator[T] = {
+    assertValid()
+    val hadoopConf = broadcastedHadoopConf.value.value
+    val blockManager = SparkEnv.get.blockManager
+    val partition = split.asInstanceOf[HDFSBackedBlockRDDPartition]
+    val blockId = partition.blockId
+    blockManager.get(blockId) match {
+      // Data is in Block Manager, grab it from there.
+      case Some(block) =>
+        block.data.asInstanceOf[Iterator[T]]
+      // Data not found in Block Manager, grab it from HDFS
+      case None =>
+        logInfo("Reading partition data from write ahead log " + partition.segment.path)
+        val reader = new WriteAheadLogRandomReader(partition.segment.path, hadoopConf)
+        val dataRead = reader.read(partition.segment)
+        reader.close()
+        // Currently, we support storing the data to BM only in serialized form and not in
+        // deserialized form
+        if (storeInBlockManager) {
+          blockManager.putBytes(blockId, dataRead, storageLevel)
+        }
+        dataRead.rewind()
+        blockManager.dataDeserialize(blockId, dataRead).asInstanceOf[Iterator[T]]
+    }
+  }
+
+  override def getPreferredLocations(split: Partition): Seq[String] = {
+    val partition = split.asInstanceOf[HDFSBackedBlockRDDPartition]
+    val locations = getBlockIdLocations()
+    locations.getOrElse(partition.blockId,
+      HdfsUtils.getBlockLocations(partition.segment.path, hadoopConfiguration)
+        .getOrElse(new Array[String](0)).toSeq)
+  }
+}
diff --git a/streaming/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/rdd/HDFSBackedBlockRDDSuite.scala b/streaming/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/rdd/HDFSBackedBlockRDDSuite.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9e1ad312e52fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/streaming/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/rdd/HDFSBackedBlockRDDSuite.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
+/*
+ * 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.streaming.rdd
+
+import java.io.File
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger
+
+import scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer
+import org.scalatest.{BeforeAndAfter, FunSuite}
+
+import com.google.common.io.Files
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration
+
+import org.apache.spark.storage.{BlockId, StorageLevel, StreamBlockId}
+import org.apache.spark.streaming.util.{WriteAheadLogFileSegment, WriteAheadLogWriter}
+import org.apache.spark.{SparkConf, SparkContext}
+
+class HDFSBackedBlockRDDSuite extends FunSuite with BeforeAndAfter {
+  val conf = new SparkConf()
+    .setMaster("local[2]")
+    .setAppName(this.getClass.getSimpleName)
+  val sparkContext = new SparkContext(conf)
+  val hadoopConf = new Configuration()
+  val blockManager = sparkContext.env.blockManager
+  // Since the same BM is reused in all tests, use an atomic int to generate ids
+  val idGenerator = new AtomicInteger(0)
+  var file: File = null
+  var dir: File = null
+
+  before {
+    dir = Files.createTempDir()
+    file = new File(dir, "BlockManagerWrite")
+  }
+
+  after {
+    file.delete()
+    dir.delete()
+  }
+
+  test("Data available in BM and HDFS") {
+    doTestHDFSBackedRDD(5, 5, 20, 5)
+  }
+
+  test("Data available in in BM but not in HDFS") {
+    doTestHDFSBackedRDD(5, 0, 20, 5)
+  }
+
+  test("Data available in in HDFS and not in BM") {
+    doTestHDFSBackedRDD(0, 5, 20, 5)
+  }
+
+  test("Data partially available in BM, and the rest in HDFS") {
+    doTestHDFSBackedRDD(3, 2, 20, 5)
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Write a bunch of events into the HDFS Block RDD. Put a part of all of them to the
+   * BlockManager, so all reads need not happen from HDFS.
+   * @param total - Total number of Strings to write
+   * @param blockCount - Number of blocks to write (therefore, total # of events per block =
+   *                   total/blockCount
+   */
+  private def doTestHDFSBackedRDD(
+      writeToBMCount: Int,
+      writeToHDFSCount: Int,
+      total: Int,
+      blockCount: Int
+    ) {
+    val countPerBlock = total / blockCount
+    val blockIds = (0 until blockCount).map {
+      i =>
+        StreamBlockId(idGenerator.incrementAndGet(), idGenerator.incrementAndGet())
+    }
+
+    val writtenStrings = generateData(total, countPerBlock)
+
+    if (writeToBMCount != 0) {
+      (0 until writeToBMCount).foreach { i =>
+        blockManager
+          .putIterator(blockIds(i), writtenStrings(i).iterator, StorageLevel.MEMORY_ONLY_SER)
+      }
+    }
+
+    val segments = new ArrayBuffer[WriteAheadLogFileSegment]
+    if (writeToHDFSCount != 0) {
+      // Generate some fake segments for the blocks in BM so the RDD does not complain
+      segments ++= generateFakeSegments(writeToBMCount)
+      segments ++= writeDataToHDFS(writtenStrings.slice(writeToBMCount, blockCount),
+        blockIds.slice(writeToBMCount, blockCount))
+
+    } else {
+      segments ++= generateFakeSegments(blockCount)
+    }
+    val rdd = new HDFSBackedBlockRDD[String](sparkContext, hadoopConf, blockIds.toArray,
+      segments.toArray, false, StorageLevel.MEMORY_ONLY)
+
+    val dataFromRDD = rdd.collect()
+    // verify each partition is equal to the data pulled out
+    assert(writtenStrings.flatten === dataFromRDD)
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Write data to HDFS and get a list of Seq of Seqs in which each Seq represents the data that
+   * went into one block.
+   * @param count - Number of Strings to write
+   * @param countPerBlock - Number of Strings per block
+   * @return - Tuple of (Seq of Seqs, each of these Seqs is one block, Seq of WriteAheadLogFileSegments,
+   *         each representing the block being written to HDFS.
+   */
+  private def generateData(
+      count: Int,
+      countPerBlock: Int
+    ): Seq[Seq[String]] = {
+    val strings = (0 until count).map { _ => scala.util.Random.nextString(50)}
+    strings.grouped(countPerBlock).toSeq
+  }
+
+  private def writeDataToHDFS(
+    blockData: Seq[Seq[String]],
+    blockIds: Seq[BlockId]
+    ): Seq[WriteAheadLogFileSegment] = {
+    assert(blockData.size === blockIds.size)
+    val segments = new ArrayBuffer[WriteAheadLogFileSegment]()
+    val writer = new WriteAheadLogWriter(file.toString, hadoopConf)
+    blockData.zip(blockIds).foreach {
+      case (data, id) =>
+        segments += writer.write(blockManager.dataSerialize(id, data.iterator))
+    }
+    writer.close()
+    segments
+  }
+
+  private def generateFakeSegments(count: Int): Seq[WriteAheadLogFileSegment] = {
+    (0 until count).map {
+      _ => new WriteAheadLogFileSegment("random", 0l, 0)
+    }
+  }
+}