diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkConf.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkConf.scala
index c9c342df82c9..6e3436c429d7 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkConf.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/SparkConf.scala
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ package org.apache.spark
 import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap
 
 import scala.collection.JavaConverters._
+import scala.collection.immutable
 import scala.collection.mutable.LinkedHashSet
 
 import org.apache.avro.{Schema, SchemaNormalization}
@@ -384,6 +385,10 @@ class SparkConf(loadDefaults: Boolean) extends Cloneable with Logging with Seria
       .map { case (k, v) => (k.substring(prefix.length), v) }
   }
 
+  /** Get all parameters as a Map */
+  def getAllAsMap: immutable.Map[String, String] = {
+    settings.asScala.toMap
+  }
 
   /** Get a parameter as an integer, falling back to a default if not set */
   def getInt(key: String, defaultValue: Int): Int = {
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 a77937efd7e1..4dd100623216 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
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ class DataFrameReader private[sql](sparkSession: SparkSession) extends Logging {
         paths = paths,
         userSpecifiedSchema = userSpecifiedSchema,
         className = source,
-        options = extraOptions.toMap).resolveRelation())
+        options = optionsOverriddenWith(extraOptions.toMap)).resolveRelation())
   }
 
   /**
@@ -551,4 +551,10 @@ class DataFrameReader private[sql](sparkSession: SparkSession) extends Logging {
 
   private var extraOptions = new scala.collection.mutable.HashMap[String, String]
 
+  // Returns all option set in the `SparkConf`, the `SQLConf`, and a given data source `options`.
+  // If the same keys exist, they are overridden with ones in the `options`.
+  private def optionsOverriddenWith(options: Map[String, String]): Map[String, String] = {
+    sparkSession.sparkContext.conf.getAllAsMap ++ sparkSession.conf.getAll ++ options
+  }
+
 }
diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/DataSourceScanExec.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/DataSourceScanExec.scala
index e485b52b43f7..49450a062e09 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/DataSourceScanExec.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/DataSourceScanExec.scala
@@ -470,7 +470,8 @@ case class FileSourceScanExec(
     val defaultMaxSplitBytes =
       fsRelation.sparkSession.sessionState.conf.filesMaxPartitionBytes
     val openCostInBytes = fsRelation.sparkSession.sessionState.conf.filesOpenCostInBytes
-    val defaultParallelism = fsRelation.sparkSession.sparkContext.defaultParallelism
+    val defaultParallelism = fsRelation.options.get("spark.default.parallelism").map(_.toInt)
+      .getOrElse(fsRelation.sparkSession.sparkContext.defaultParallelism)
     val totalBytes = selectedPartitions.flatMap(_.files.map(_.getLen + openCostInBytes)).sum
     val bytesPerCore = totalBytes / defaultParallelism
 
diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetFileFormat.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetFileFormat.scala
index 031a0fe57893..e02751e22943 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetFileFormat.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetFileFormat.scala
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ class ParquetFileFormat
             .orElse(filesByType.data.headOption)
             .toSeq
       }
-    ParquetFileFormat.mergeSchemasInParallel(filesToTouch, sparkSession)
+    ParquetFileFormat.mergeSchemasInParallel(filesToTouch, sparkSession, parameters)
   }
 
   case class FileTypes(
@@ -561,9 +561,10 @@ object ParquetFileFormat extends Logging {
    *     slow.  And basically locality is not available when using S3 (you can't run computation on
    *     S3 nodes).
    */
-  def mergeSchemasInParallel(
+  private def mergeSchemasInParallel(
       filesToTouch: Seq[FileStatus],
-      sparkSession: SparkSession): Option[StructType] = {
+      sparkSession: SparkSession,
+      parameters: Map[String, String]): Option[StructType] = {
     val assumeBinaryIsString = sparkSession.sessionState.conf.isParquetBinaryAsString
     val assumeInt96IsTimestamp = sparkSession.sessionState.conf.isParquetINT96AsTimestamp
     val writeLegacyParquetFormat = sparkSession.sessionState.conf.writeLegacyParquetFormat
@@ -584,8 +585,9 @@ object ParquetFileFormat extends Logging {
 
     // Set the number of partitions to prevent following schema reads from generating many tasks
     // in case of a small number of parquet files.
-    val numParallelism = Math.min(Math.max(partialFileStatusInfo.size, 1),
-      sparkSession.sparkContext.defaultParallelism)
+    val defaultParallelism = parameters.get("spark.default.parallelism").map(_.toInt)
+      .getOrElse(sparkSession.sparkContext.defaultParallelism)
+    val numParallelism = Math.min(Math.max(partialFileStatusInfo.size, 1), defaultParallelism)
 
     // Issues a Spark job to read Parquet schema in parallel.
     val partiallyMergedSchemas =
diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetOptions.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetOptions.scala
index a81a95d51085..e51b7e5fc4c3 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetOptions.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/parquet/ParquetOptions.scala
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ private[parquet] class ParquetOptions(
    * Acceptable values are defined in [[shortParquetCompressionCodecNames]].
    */
   val compressionCodecClassName: String = {
-    val codecName = parameters.getOrElse("compression", sqlConf.parquetCompressionCodec).toLowerCase
+    val codecName = parameters.getOrElse("compression", parameters.getOrElse(
+      "spark.sql.parquet.compression.codec", sqlConf.parquetCompressionCodec)).toLowerCase
     if (!shortParquetCompressionCodecNames.contains(codecName)) {
       val availableCodecs = shortParquetCompressionCodecNames.keys.map(_.toLowerCase)
       throw new IllegalArgumentException(s"Codec [$codecName] " +
@@ -55,8 +56,9 @@ private[parquet] class ParquetOptions(
    */
   val mergeSchema: Boolean = parameters
     .get(MERGE_SCHEMA)
-    .map(_.toBoolean)
-    .getOrElse(sqlConf.isParquetSchemaMergingEnabled)
+     .map(_.toBoolean)
+    .getOrElse(parameters.get("spark.sql.parquet.mergeSchema").map(_.toBoolean)
+    .getOrElse(sqlConf.getConf(SQLConf.PARQUET_SCHEMA_MERGING_ENABLED)))
 }
 
 
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/FileSourceStrategySuite.scala b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/FileSourceStrategySuite.scala
index d900ce7bb237..653e72fafbee 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/FileSourceStrategySuite.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/FileSourceStrategySuite.scala
@@ -274,6 +274,29 @@ class FileSourceStrategySuite extends QueryTest with SharedSQLContext with Predi
     }
   }
 
+  test("datasource-specific minPartitions") {
+    val table =
+      createTable(
+        files = Seq(
+          "file1" -> 1,
+          "file2" -> 1,
+          "file3" -> 1,
+          "file4" -> 1,
+          "file5" -> 1,
+          "file6" -> 1,
+          "file7" -> 1,
+          "file8" -> 1,
+          "file9" -> 1),
+        options = Map("spark.default.parallelism" -> "3"))
+
+    checkScan(table.select('c1)) { partitions =>
+      assert(partitions.size == 3)
+      assert(partitions(0).files.size == 3)
+      assert(partitions(1).files.size == 3)
+      assert(partitions(2).files.size == 3)
+    }
+  }
+
   test("Locality support for FileScanRDD") {
     val partition = FilePartition(0, Seq(
       PartitionedFile(InternalRow.empty, "fakePath0", 0, 10, Array("host0", "host1")),
@@ -526,7 +549,8 @@ class FileSourceStrategySuite extends QueryTest with SharedSQLContext with Predi
    */
   def createTable(
       files: Seq[(String, Int)],
-      buckets: Int = 0): DataFrame = {
+      buckets: Int = 0,
+      options: Map[String, String] = Map.empty): DataFrame = {
     val tempDir = Utils.createTempDir()
     files.foreach {
       case (name, size) =>
@@ -537,6 +561,7 @@ class FileSourceStrategySuite extends QueryTest with SharedSQLContext with Predi
 
     val df = spark.read
       .format(classOf[TestFileFormat].getName)
+      .options(options)
       .load(tempDir.getCanonicalPath)
 
     if (buckets > 0) {