diff --git a/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/config/HoodieWriteConfig.java b/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/config/HoodieWriteConfig.java
index c7f2c45ea..b7b410817 100644
--- a/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/config/HoodieWriteConfig.java
+++ b/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/config/HoodieWriteConfig.java
@@ -447,6 +447,12 @@ public class HoodieWriteConfig extends HoodieConfig {
       .sinceVersion("0.11.0")
       .withDocumentation("Master control to disable all table services including archive, clean, compact, cluster, etc.");
 
+  public static final ConfigProperty<Boolean> RELEASE_RESOURCE_ENABLE = ConfigProperty
+      .key("hoodie.release.resource.on.completion.enable")
+      .defaultValue(true)
+      .sinceVersion("0.11.0")
+      .withDocumentation("Control to enable release all persist rdds when the spark job finish.");
+
   private ConsistencyGuardConfig consistencyGuardConfig;
   private FileSystemRetryConfig fileSystemRetryConfig;
 
@@ -1716,7 +1722,7 @@ public class HoodieWriteConfig extends HoodieConfig {
   public String getMetricReporterMetricsNamePrefix() {
     return getStringOrDefault(HoodieMetricsConfig.METRICS_REPORTER_PREFIX);
   }
-  
+
   /**
    * memory configs.
    */
@@ -1945,6 +1951,10 @@ public class HoodieWriteConfig extends HoodieConfig {
     return getBooleanOrDefault(TABLE_SERVICES_ENABLED);
   }
 
+  public boolean areReleaseResourceEnabled() {
+    return getBooleanOrDefault(RELEASE_RESOURCE_ENABLE);
+  }
+
   /**
    * Layout configs.
    */
@@ -2315,6 +2325,11 @@ public class HoodieWriteConfig extends HoodieConfig {
       return this;
     }
 
+    public Builder withReleaseResourceEnabled(boolean enabled) {
+      writeConfig.setValue(RELEASE_RESOURCE_ENABLE, Boolean.toString(enabled));
+      return this;
+    }
+
     public Builder withProperties(Properties properties) {
       this.writeConfig.getProps().putAll(properties);
       return this;
diff --git a/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/client/SparkRDDWriteClient.java b/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/client/SparkRDDWriteClient.java
index 2fb27fe79..d51d25616 100644
--- a/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/client/SparkRDDWriteClient.java
+++ b/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/client/SparkRDDWriteClient.java
@@ -531,7 +531,11 @@ public class SparkRDDWriteClient<T extends HoodieRecordPayload> extends
 
   @Override
   protected void releaseResources() {
-    ((HoodieSparkEngineContext) context).getJavaSparkContext().getPersistentRDDs().values()
-        .forEach(rdd -> rdd.unpersist());
+    // If we do not explicitly release the resource, spark will automatically manage the resource and clean it up automatically
+    // see: https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/rdd-programming-guide.html#removing-data
+    if (config.areReleaseResourceEnabled()) {
+      ((HoodieSparkEngineContext) context).getJavaSparkContext().getPersistentRDDs().values()
+          .forEach(JavaRDD::unpersist);
+    }
   }
 }
diff --git a/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/table/TestHoodieMergeOnReadTable.java b/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/table/TestHoodieMergeOnReadTable.java
index 1b613949c..dcc41addc 100644
--- a/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/table/TestHoodieMergeOnReadTable.java
+++ b/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/table/TestHoodieMergeOnReadTable.java
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 
 package org.apache.hudi.table;
 
-import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hudi.client.HoodieReadClient;
 import org.apache.hudi.client.SparkRDDWriteClient;
 import org.apache.hudi.client.WriteStatus;
@@ -55,10 +54,12 @@ import org.apache.hudi.testutils.SparkClientFunctionalTestHarness;
 
 import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericRecord;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileStatus;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobConf;
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaRDD;
 import org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset;
 import org.apache.spark.sql.Row;
+import org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
@@ -566,9 +567,52 @@ public class TestHoodieMergeOnReadTable extends SparkClientFunctionalTestHarness
       WriteStatus status = deleteStatus.get(0).get(0);
       assertTrue(status.hasErrors());
       long numRecordsInPartition = fewRecordsForDelete.stream().filter(u ->
-              u.getPartitionPath().equals(partitionPath)).count();
+          u.getPartitionPath().equals(partitionPath)).count();
       assertEquals(fewRecordsForDelete.size() - numRecordsInPartition, status.getTotalErrorRecords());
     }
   }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testReleaseResource() throws Exception {
+    HoodieWriteConfig.Builder builder = getConfigBuilder(true);
+    builder.withReleaseResourceEnabled(true);
+    builder.withAutoCommit(false);
+    /**
+     * Write 1 (test when RELEASE_RESOURCE_ENABLE is true)
+     */
+    try (SparkRDDWriteClient client = getHoodieWriteClient(builder.build())) {
+
+      String newCommitTime = "001";
+      client.startCommitWithTime(newCommitTime);
+
+      List<HoodieRecord> records = dataGen.generateInserts(newCommitTime, 20);
+      JavaRDD<HoodieRecord> writeRecords = jsc().parallelize(records, 1);
+      writeRecords.persist(StorageLevel.MEMORY_AND_DISK());
+      List<WriteStatus> statuses = client.upsert(writeRecords, newCommitTime).collect();
+      assertNoWriteErrors(statuses);
+      client.commitStats(newCommitTime, statuses.stream().map(WriteStatus::getStat).collect(Collectors.toList()), Option.empty(), metaClient.getCommitActionType());
+      assertEquals(spark().sparkContext().persistentRdds().size(), 0);
+    }
+
+    builder.withReleaseResourceEnabled(false);
+
+    /**
+     * Write 2 (test when RELEASE_RESOURCE_ENABLE is false)
+     */
+    try (SparkRDDWriteClient client = getHoodieWriteClient(builder.build())) {
+      String newCommitTime = "002";
+      client.startCommitWithTime(newCommitTime);
+
+      List<HoodieRecord> records = dataGen.generateInserts(newCommitTime, 20);
+      JavaRDD<HoodieRecord> writeRecords = jsc().parallelize(records, 1);
+
+      writeRecords.persist(StorageLevel.MEMORY_AND_DISK());
+      List<WriteStatus> statuses = client.upsert(writeRecords, newCommitTime).collect();
+      assertNoWriteErrors(statuses);
+      client.commitStats(newCommitTime, statuses.stream().map(WriteStatus::getStat).collect(Collectors.toList()), Option.empty(), metaClient.getCommitActionType());
+      assertTrue(spark().sparkContext().persistentRdds().size() > 0);
+    }
+
+  }
 }