diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrameReader.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrameReader.scala
index fd92e526e1529..76ad69f9fe92c 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrameReader.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrameReader.scala
@@ -338,6 +338,7 @@ class DataFrameReader private[sql](sqlContext: SQLContext) extends Logging {
    * @since 1.4.0
    */
   def json(jsonRDD: RDD[String]): DataFrame = {
+    option("caseSensitiveAnalysis", sqlContext.conf.caseSensitiveAnalysis)
     val parsedOptions: JSONOptions = new JSONOptions(extraOptions.toMap)
     val schema = userSpecifiedSchema.getOrElse {
       InferSchema.infer(jsonRDD, sqlContext.conf.columnNameOfCorruptRecord, parsedOptions)
diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/json/InferSchema.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/json/InferSchema.scala
index 0937a213c984f..d56df927bd764 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/json/InferSchema.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/json/InferSchema.scala
@@ -99,8 +99,10 @@ private[sql] object InferSchema {
       case START_OBJECT =>
         val builder = Seq.newBuilder[StructField]
         while (nextUntil(parser, END_OBJECT)) {
+          val tn = parser.getCurrentName
+          val name = if (configOptions.caseSensitiveAnalysis) tn else tn.toLowerCase
           builder += StructField(
-            parser.getCurrentName,
+            name,
             inferField(parser, configOptions),
             nullable = true)
         }
diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/json/JSONOptions.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/json/JSONOptions.scala
index e59dbd6b3d438..aaf8702e0e2a7 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/json/JSONOptions.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/json/JSONOptions.scala
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ private[sql] class JSONOptions(
   val allowBackslashEscapingAnyCharacter =
     parameters.get("allowBackslashEscapingAnyCharacter").map(_.toBoolean).getOrElse(false)
   val compressionCodec = parameters.get("compression").map(CompressionCodecs.getCodecClassName)
+  val caseSensitiveAnalysis =
+    parameters.get("caseSensitiveAnalysis").map(_.toBoolean).getOrElse(true)
+
 
   /** Sets config options on a Jackson [[JsonFactory]]. */
   def setJacksonOptions(factory: JsonFactory): Unit = {
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrameSuite.scala b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrameSuite.scala
index 55153cda31e0a..60554203df59e 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrameSuite.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/DataFrameSuite.scala
@@ -1340,4 +1340,12 @@ class DataFrameSuite extends QueryTest with SharedSQLContext {
     // another invalid table name test as below
     intercept[AnalysisException](df.registerTempTable("table!#"))
   }
+
+  test("SPARK-13493: Enable case sensitiveness in json schema inference") {
+    withSQLConf(SQLConf.CASE_SENSITIVE.key -> "false") {
+      val data = List("{'field': 1}", "{'field': 2}", "{'field': 3}", "{'FIELD': 4}")
+      val df = sqlContext.read.json(sc.parallelize(data))
+      assert(df.schema.map(_.name) === Seq("field"))
+    }
+  }
 }