diff --git a/dev/docker-compose.yml b/dev/docker-compose.yml
index a73fd1bfbba..b1e593cf480 100644
--- a/dev/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/dev/docker-compose.yml
@@ -33,3 +33,8 @@ services:
       context: dask_integration
     volumes:
      - ../..:/apache-arrow
+  spark_integration:
+    build: 
+      context: spark_integration
+    volumes:
+     - ../..:/apache-arrow
diff --git a/dev/spark_integration/Dockerfile b/dev/spark_integration/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d1b3cf89f0b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev/spark_integration/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+#
+# 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.
+#
+FROM maven:3.5.2-jdk-8-slim
+
+# Basic OS utilities
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
+        wget \
+        git build-essential \
+        software-properties-common
+
+# This will install conda in /home/ubuntu/miniconda
+RUN wget -O /tmp/miniconda.sh \
+    https://repo.continuum.io/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh && \
+    bash /tmp/miniconda.sh -b -p /home/ubuntu/miniconda && \
+    rm /tmp/miniconda.sh
+
+# Python dependencies
+RUN apt-get install -y \
+        pkg-config
+
+# Create Conda environment
+ENV PATH="/home/ubuntu/miniconda/bin:${PATH}"
+RUN conda create -y -q -n pyarrow-dev \
+        # Python
+        python=2.7 \
+        numpy \
+        pandas \
+        pytest \
+        cython \
+        ipython \
+        matplotlib \
+        six \
+        setuptools \
+        setuptools_scm \
+        # C++
+        boost-cpp \
+        cmake \
+        flatbuffers \
+        rapidjson \
+        thrift-cpp \
+        snappy \
+        zlib \
+        gflags \
+        brotli \
+        jemalloc \
+        lz4-c \
+        zstd \
+        -c conda-forge
+
+ADD . /apache-arrow
+WORKDIR /apache-arrow
+
+CMD arrow/dev/spark_integration/spark_integration.sh
+
+# BUILD: $ docker build -f arrow/dev/spark_integration/Dockerfile -t spark-arrow .
+# RUN:   $ docker run -v $HOME/.m2:/root/.m2 spark-arrow
diff --git a/dev/spark_integration/spark_integration.sh b/dev/spark_integration/spark_integration.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..8ca4dc3ac97
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev/spark_integration/spark_integration.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+
+# Exit on any error
+set -e
+
+# Set up environment and working directory
+cd /apache-arrow
+
+# Activate our pyarrow-dev conda env
+source activate pyarrow-dev
+
+export ARROW_HOME=$(pwd)/arrow
+export ARROW_BUILD_TYPE=release
+export ARROW_BUILD_TOOLCHAIN=$CONDA_PREFIX
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${ARROW_HOME}/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
+export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx2g -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=512m"
+
+# Build Arrow C++
+pushd arrow/cpp
+rm -rf build/*
+mkdir -p build
+cd build/
+cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0" -DARROW_PYTHON=on -DARROW_HDFS=on -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=$ARROW_BUILD_TYPE -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$ARROW_HOME ..
+make -j4
+make install
+popd
+
+# Build pyarrow and install inplace
+export PYARROW_CXXFLAGS="-D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0"
+pushd arrow/python
+python setup.py clean
+python setup.py build_ext --build-type=$ARROW_BUILD_TYPE install
+popd
+
+# Install Arrow to local maven repo and get the version
+pushd arrow/java
+echo "Building and installing Arrow Java"
+mvn -DskipTests -Drat.skip=true clean install
+ARROW_VERSION=`mvn org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-help-plugin:2.1.1:evaluate -Dexpression=project.version | sed -n -e '/^\[.*\]/ !{ /^[0-9]/ { p; q } }'`
+echo "Using Arrow version $ARROW_VERSION"
+popd
+
+# Build Spark with Arrow
+SPARK_REPO=git://git.apache.org/spark.git
+SPARK_BRANCH=master
+
+# Get the Spark repo if not in image already
+if [ ! -d "$(pwd)/spark" ]; then
+    export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="Nobody"
+    export GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="nobody@nowhere.com"
+    git clone "$SPARK_REPO"
+fi
+
+pushd spark
+
+# Make sure branch has no modifications
+git checkout "$SPARK_BRANCH"
+git reset --hard HEAD
+
+# Update Spark pom with the Arrow version just installed and build Spark, need package phase for pyspark
+sed -i -e "s/\(.*<arrow.version>\).*\(<\/arrow.version>\)/\1$ARROW_VERSION\2/g" ./pom.xml
+echo "Building Spark with Arrow $ARROW_VERSION"
+build/mvn -DskipTests clean package
+
+# Run Arrow related Scala tests only, NOTE: -Dtest=_NonExist_ is to enable surefire test discovery without running any tests so that Scalatest can run
+SPARK_SCALA_TESTS="org.apache.spark.sql.execution.arrow,org.apache.spark.sql.execution.vectorized.ColumnarBatchSuite,org.apache.spark.sql.execution.vectorized.ArrowColumnVectorSuite"
+echo "Testing Spark: $SPARK_SCALA_TESTS"
+# TODO: should be able to only build spark-sql tests with adding "-pl sql/core" but not currently working
+build/mvn -Dtest=none -DwildcardSuites="$SPARK_SCALA_TESTS" test
+
+# Run pyarrow related Python tests only
+SPARK_PYTHON_TESTS="ArrowTests PandasUDFTests ScalarPandasUDFTests GroupedMapPandasUDFTests GroupedAggPandasUDFTests"
+echo "Testing PySpark: $SPARK_PYTHON_TESTS"
+SPARK_TESTING=1 bin/pyspark pyspark.sql.tests $SPARK_PYTHON_TESTS 
+popd
+