diff --git a/hoodie-cli/src/main/scala/com/uber/hoodie/cli/SparkHelpers.scala b/hoodie-cli/src/main/scala/com/uber/hoodie/cli/SparkHelpers.scala
index 8e1eccfee..f383e5fba 100644
--- a/hoodie-cli/src/main/scala/com/uber/hoodie/cli/SparkHelpers.scala
+++ b/hoodie-cli/src/main/scala/com/uber/hoodie/cli/SparkHelpers.scala
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ object SparkHelpers {
     val schema: Schema = sourceRecords.get(0).getSchema
     val filter: BloomFilter = new BloomFilter(HoodieIndexConfig.DEFAULT_BLOOM_FILTER_NUM_ENTRIES.toInt, HoodieIndexConfig.DEFAULT_BLOOM_FILTER_FPP.toDouble)
     val writeSupport: HoodieAvroWriteSupport = new HoodieAvroWriteSupport(new AvroSchemaConverter().convert(schema), schema, filter)
-    val parquetConfig: HoodieParquetConfig = new HoodieParquetConfig(writeSupport, CompressionCodecName.GZIP, HoodieStorageConfig.DEFAULT_PARQUET_BLOCK_SIZE_BYTES.toInt, HoodieStorageConfig.DEFAULT_PARQUET_PAGE_SIZE_BYTES.toInt, HoodieStorageConfig.DEFAULT_PARQUET_FILE_MAX_BYTES.toInt, fs.getConf)
+    val parquetConfig: HoodieParquetConfig = new HoodieParquetConfig(writeSupport, CompressionCodecName.GZIP, HoodieStorageConfig.DEFAULT_PARQUET_BLOCK_SIZE_BYTES.toInt, HoodieStorageConfig.DEFAULT_PARQUET_PAGE_SIZE_BYTES.toInt, HoodieStorageConfig.DEFAULT_PARQUET_FILE_MAX_BYTES.toInt, fs.getConf, HoodieStorageConfig.DEFAULT_STREAM_COMPRESSION_RATIO.toDouble)
     val writer = new HoodieParquetWriter[HoodieJsonPayload, IndexedRecord](commitTime, destinationFile, parquetConfig, schema)
     for (rec <- sourceRecords) {
       val key: String = rec.get(HoodieRecord.RECORD_KEY_METADATA_FIELD).toString
diff --git a/hoodie-client/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/config/HoodieStorageConfig.java b/hoodie-client/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/config/HoodieStorageConfig.java
index 168174c63..0eb0a5c0e 100644
--- a/hoodie-client/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/config/HoodieStorageConfig.java
+++ b/hoodie-client/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/config/HoodieStorageConfig.java
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ public class HoodieStorageConfig extends DefaultHoodieConfig {
   // used to size data blocks in log file
   public static final String LOGFILE_DATA_BLOCK_SIZE_MAX_BYTES = "hoodie.logfile.data.block.max.size";
   public static final String DEFAULT_LOGFILE_DATA_BLOCK_SIZE_MAX_BYTES = String.valueOf(256*1024*1024); // 256 MB
+  public static final String PARQUET_COMPRESSION_RATIO = "hoodie.parquet.compression.ratio";
+  // Default compression ratio for parquet
+  public static final String DEFAULT_STREAM_COMPRESSION_RATIO = String.valueOf(0.1);
 
   private HoodieStorageConfig(Properties props) {
     super(props);
@@ -93,6 +96,11 @@ public class HoodieStorageConfig extends DefaultHoodieConfig {
       return this;
     }
 
+    public Builder parquetCompressionRatio(double parquetCompressionRatio) {
+      props.setProperty(PARQUET_COMPRESSION_RATIO, String.valueOf(parquetCompressionRatio));
+      return this;
+    }
+
     public HoodieStorageConfig build() {
       HoodieStorageConfig config = new HoodieStorageConfig(props);
       setDefaultOnCondition(props, !props.containsKey(PARQUET_FILE_MAX_BYTES),
@@ -105,6 +113,8 @@ public class HoodieStorageConfig extends DefaultHoodieConfig {
           LOGFILE_DATA_BLOCK_SIZE_MAX_BYTES, DEFAULT_LOGFILE_DATA_BLOCK_SIZE_MAX_BYTES);
       setDefaultOnCondition(props, !props.containsKey(LOGFILE_SIZE_MAX_BYTES),
           LOGFILE_SIZE_MAX_BYTES, DEFAULT_LOGFILE_SIZE_MAX_BYTES);
+      setDefaultOnCondition(props, !props.containsKey(PARQUET_COMPRESSION_RATIO),
+          PARQUET_COMPRESSION_RATIO, DEFAULT_STREAM_COMPRESSION_RATIO);
       return config;
     }
   }
diff --git a/hoodie-client/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/config/HoodieWriteConfig.java b/hoodie-client/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/config/HoodieWriteConfig.java
index aa0dc101d..d0911dca1 100644
--- a/hoodie-client/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/config/HoodieWriteConfig.java
+++ b/hoodie-client/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/config/HoodieWriteConfig.java
@@ -309,6 +309,10 @@ public class HoodieWriteConfig extends DefaultHoodieConfig {
     return Integer.parseInt(props.getProperty(HoodieStorageConfig.LOGFILE_SIZE_MAX_BYTES));
   }
 
+  public double getParquetCompressionRatio() {
+    return Double.valueOf(props.getProperty(HoodieStorageConfig.PARQUET_COMPRESSION_RATIO));
+  }
+
 
   /**
    * metrics properties
diff --git a/hoodie-client/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/io/storage/HoodieParquetConfig.java b/hoodie-client/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/io/storage/HoodieParquetConfig.java
index f0aa544da..985e2cc28 100644
--- a/hoodie-client/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/io/storage/HoodieParquetConfig.java
+++ b/hoodie-client/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/io/storage/HoodieParquetConfig.java
@@ -28,16 +28,18 @@ public class HoodieParquetConfig {
   private int pageSize;
   private long maxFileSize;
   private Configuration hadoopConf;
+  private double compressionRatio;
 
   public HoodieParquetConfig(HoodieAvroWriteSupport writeSupport,
       CompressionCodecName compressionCodecName, int blockSize, int pageSize, long maxFileSize,
-      Configuration hadoopConf) {
+      Configuration hadoopConf, double compressionRatio) {
     this.writeSupport = writeSupport;
     this.compressionCodecName = compressionCodecName;
     this.blockSize = blockSize;
     this.pageSize = pageSize;
     this.maxFileSize = maxFileSize;
     this.hadoopConf = hadoopConf;
+    this.compressionRatio = compressionRatio;
   }
 
   public HoodieAvroWriteSupport getWriteSupport() {
@@ -63,4 +65,8 @@ public class HoodieParquetConfig {
   public Configuration getHadoopConf() {
     return hadoopConf;
   }
+
+  public double getCompressionRatio() {
+    return compressionRatio;
+  }
 }
diff --git a/hoodie-client/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/io/storage/HoodieParquetWriter.java b/hoodie-client/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/io/storage/HoodieParquetWriter.java
index 48bdfda59..9978c0747 100644
--- a/hoodie-client/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/io/storage/HoodieParquetWriter.java
+++ b/hoodie-client/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/io/storage/HoodieParquetWriter.java
@@ -39,10 +39,8 @@ import org.apache.spark.TaskContext;
 public class HoodieParquetWriter<T extends HoodieRecordPayload, R extends IndexedRecord>
     extends ParquetWriter<IndexedRecord> implements HoodieStorageWriter<R> {
 
-  private static double STREAM_COMPRESSION_RATIO = 0.1;
   private static AtomicLong recordIndex = new AtomicLong(1);
 
-
   private final Path file;
   private final HoodieWrapperFileSystem fs;
   private final long maxFileSize;
@@ -75,7 +73,7 @@ public class HoodieParquetWriter<T extends HoodieRecordPayload, R extends Indexe
     // We cannot accurately measure the snappy compressed output file size. We are choosing a conservative 10%
     // TODO - compute this compression ratio dynamically by looking at the bytes written to the stream and the actual file size reported by HDFS
     this.maxFileSize = parquetConfig.getMaxFileSize() + Math
-        .round(parquetConfig.getMaxFileSize() * STREAM_COMPRESSION_RATIO);
+        .round(parquetConfig.getMaxFileSize() * parquetConfig.getCompressionRatio());
     this.writeSupport = parquetConfig.getWriteSupport();
     this.commitTime = commitTime;
     this.schema = schema;
diff --git a/hoodie-client/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/io/storage/HoodieStorageWriterFactory.java b/hoodie-client/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/io/storage/HoodieStorageWriterFactory.java
index 17842b888..0bf07482f 100644
--- a/hoodie-client/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/io/storage/HoodieStorageWriterFactory.java
+++ b/hoodie-client/src/main/java/com/uber/hoodie/io/storage/HoodieStorageWriterFactory.java
@@ -50,7 +50,8 @@ public class HoodieStorageWriterFactory {
     HoodieParquetConfig parquetConfig =
         new HoodieParquetConfig(writeSupport, CompressionCodecName.GZIP,
             config.getParquetBlockSize(), config.getParquetPageSize(),
-            config.getParquetMaxFileSize(), hoodieTable.getHadoopConf());
+            config.getParquetMaxFileSize(), hoodieTable.getHadoopConf(),
+            config.getParquetCompressionRatio());
 
     return new HoodieParquetWriter<>(commitTime, path, parquetConfig, schema);
   }
diff --git a/hoodie-client/src/test/java/com/uber/hoodie/index/bloom/TestHoodieBloomIndex.java b/hoodie-client/src/test/java/com/uber/hoodie/index/bloom/TestHoodieBloomIndex.java
index c0b7f4a27..4bf91001f 100644
--- a/hoodie-client/src/test/java/com/uber/hoodie/index/bloom/TestHoodieBloomIndex.java
+++ b/hoodie-client/src/test/java/com/uber/hoodie/index/bloom/TestHoodieBloomIndex.java
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ import com.uber.hoodie.common.model.HoodieTestUtils;
 import com.uber.hoodie.common.table.HoodieTableMetaClient;
 import com.uber.hoodie.common.util.FSUtils;
 import com.uber.hoodie.common.util.HoodieAvroUtils;
+import com.uber.hoodie.config.HoodieStorageConfig;
 import com.uber.hoodie.config.HoodieWriteConfig;
 import com.uber.hoodie.io.storage.HoodieParquetConfig;
 import com.uber.hoodie.io.storage.HoodieParquetWriter;
@@ -513,7 +514,8 @@ public class TestHoodieBloomIndex {
     String commitTime = FSUtils.getCommitTime(filename);
     HoodieParquetConfig config = new HoodieParquetConfig(writeSupport, CompressionCodecName.GZIP,
         ParquetWriter.DEFAULT_BLOCK_SIZE, ParquetWriter.DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE, 120 * 1024 * 1024,
-        HoodieTestUtils.getDefaultHadoopConf());
+        HoodieTestUtils.getDefaultHadoopConf(),
+        Double.valueOf(HoodieStorageConfig.DEFAULT_STREAM_COMPRESSION_RATIO));
     HoodieParquetWriter writer = new HoodieParquetWriter(
         commitTime,
         new Path(basePath + "/" + partitionPath + "/" + filename),