diff --git a/REQUIRE b/REQUIRE
index 7bb9ed3..e7929e1 100644
--- a/REQUIRE
+++ b/REQUIRE
@@ -5,3 +5,5 @@ StatsBase 0.11.0
 SortingAlgorithms
 Reexport
 Compat 0.19.0
+WeakRefStrings 0.1.3
+DataStreams 0.1.0
diff --git a/src/DataTables.jl b/src/DataTables.jl
index e69a70b..3763f7d 100644
--- a/src/DataTables.jl
+++ b/src/DataTables.jl
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ import NullableArrays: dropnull, dropnull!
 @reexport using CategoricalArrays
 using GZip
 using SortingAlgorithms
-
 using Base: Sort, Order
 import Base: ==, |>
 
diff --git a/src/abstractdatatable/io.jl b/src/abstractdatatable/io.jl
index 3c6ff81..9c6aa07 100644
--- a/src/abstractdatatable/io.jl
+++ b/src/abstractdatatable/io.jl
@@ -194,3 +194,140 @@ end
 @compat function Base.show(io::IO, ::MIME"text/tab-separated-values", dt::AbstractDataTable)
     printtable(io, dt, true, '\t')
 end
+
+##############################################################################
+#
+# DataStreams-based IO
+#
+##############################################################################
+
+importall DataStreams
+using WeakRefStrings
+
+# DataTables DataStreams implementation
+function Data.schema(df::DataTable, ::Type{Data.Column})
+    return Data.Schema(map(string, names(df)),
+                       DataType[typeof(A) for A in df.columns], size(df, 1))
+end
+
+# DataTable as a Data.Source
+function Data.isdone(source::DataTable, row, col)
+    rows, cols = size(source)
+    return row > rows || col > cols
+end
+
+Data.streamtype(::Type{DataTable}, ::Type{Data.Column}) = true
+Data.streamtype(::Type{DataTable}, ::Type{Data.Field}) = true
+
+Data.streamfrom{T <: AbstractVector}(source::DataTable, ::Type{Data.Column}, ::Type{T}, col) =
+    (@inbounds A = source.columns[col]::T; return A)
+Data.streamfrom{T}(source::DataTable, ::Type{Data.Column}, ::Type{T}, col) =
+    (@inbounds A = source.columns[col]; return A)
+Data.streamfrom{T}(source::DataTable, ::Type{Data.Field}, ::Type{T}, row, col) =
+    (@inbounds A = Data.streamfrom(source, Data.Column, T, col); return A[row]::T)
+
+# DataTable as a Data.Sink
+allocate{T}(::Type{T}, rows, ref) = Array{T}(rows)
+allocate{T}(::Type{Vector{T}}, rows, ref) = Array{T}(rows)
+
+allocate{T}(::Type{Nullable{T}}, rows, ref) =
+    NullableArray{T, 1}(Array{T}(rows), fill(true, rows), isempty(ref) ? UInt8[] : ref)
+allocate{T}(::Type{NullableVector{T}}, rows, ref) =
+    NullableArray{T, 1}(Array{T}(rows), fill(true, rows), isempty(ref) ? UInt8[] : ref)
+
+allocate{S,R}(::Type{CategoricalArrays.CategoricalValue{S,R}}, rows, ref) =
+    CategoricalArray{S,1,R}(rows)
+allocate{S,R}(::Type{CategoricalVector{S,R}}, rows, ref) =
+    CategoricalArray{S,1,R}(rows)
+
+allocate{S,R}(::Type{Nullable{CategoricalArrays.CategoricalValue{S,R}}}, rows, ref) =
+    NullableCategoricalArray{S,1,R}(rows)
+allocate{S,R}(::Type{NullableCategoricalVector{S,R}}, rows, ref) =
+    NullableCategoricalArray{S,1,R}(rows)
+
+function DataTable{T <: Data.StreamType}(sch::Data.Schema,
+                                         ::Type{T}=Data.Field,
+                                         append::Bool=false,
+                                         ref::Vector{UInt8}=UInt8[], args...)
+    rows, cols = size(sch)
+    rows = max(0, T <: Data.Column ? 0 : rows) # don't pre-allocate for Column streaming
+    columns = Vector{Any}(cols)
+    types = Data.types(sch)
+    for i = 1:cols
+        columns[i] = allocate(types[i], rows, ref)
+    end
+    return DataTable(columns, map(Symbol, Data.header(sch)))
+end
+
+# given an existing DataTable (`sink`), make any necessary changes for streaming source
+# with Data.Schema `sch` to it, given we know if we'll be `appending` or not
+function DataTable(sink, sch::Data.Schema, ::Type{Data.Field}, append::Bool,
+                   ref::Vector{UInt8})
+    rows, cols = size(sch)
+    newsize = max(0, rows) + (append ? size(sink, 1) : 0)
+    # need to make sure we don't break a NullableVector{WeakRefString{UInt8}} when appending
+    if append
+        for (i, T) in enumerate(Data.types(sch))
+            if T <: Nullable{WeakRefString{UInt8}}
+                sink.columns[i] = NullableArray(String[string(get(x, "")) for x in sink.columns[i]])
+                sch.types[i] = Nullable{String}
+            end
+        end
+    end
+    newsize != size(sink, 1) && foreach(x->resize!(x, newsize), sink.columns)
+    sch.rows = newsize
+    return sink
+end
+function DataTable(sink, sch::Data.Schema, ::Type{Data.Column}, append::Bool, ref::Vector{UInt8})
+    rows, cols = size(sch)
+    append ? (sch.rows += size(sink, 1)) : foreach(empty!, sink.columns)
+    return sink
+end
+
+Data.streamtypes(::Type{DataTable}) = [Data.Column, Data.Field]
+
+Data.streamto!{T}(sink::DataTable, ::Type{Data.Field}, val::T, row, col, sch::Data.Schema{false}) =
+    push!(sink.columns[col]::Vector{T}, val)
+Data.streamto!{T}(sink::DataTable, ::Type{Data.Field}, val::Nullable{T}, row, col, sch::Data.Schema{false}) =
+    push!(sink.columns[col]::NullableVector{T}, val)
+Data.streamto!{T, R}(sink::DataTable, ::Type{Data.Field}, val::CategoricalValue{T, R}, row, col, sch::Data.Schema{false}) =
+    push!(sink.columns[col]::CategoricalVector{T, R}, val)
+Data.streamto!{T, R}(sink::DataTable, ::Type{Data.Field}, val::Nullable{CategoricalValue{T, R}}, row, col, sch::Data.Schema{false}) =
+    push!(sink.columns[col]::NullableCategoricalVector{T, R}, val)
+Data.streamto!{T}(sink::DataTable, ::Type{Data.Field}, val::T, row, col, sch::Data.Schema{true}) =
+    (sink.columns[col]::Vector{T})[row] = val
+Data.streamto!{T}(sink::DataTable, ::Type{Data.Field}, val::Nullable{T}, row, col, sch::Data.Schema{true}) =
+    (sink.columns[col]::NullableVector{T})[row] = val
+Data.streamto!(sink::DataTable, ::Type{Data.Field}, val::Nullable{WeakRefString{UInt8}}, row, col, sch::Data.Schema{true}) =
+    sink.columns[col][row] = val
+Data.streamto!{T, R}(sink::DataTable, ::Type{Data.Field}, val::CategoricalValue{T, R}, row, col, sch::Data.Schema{true}) =
+    (sink.columns[col]::CategoricalVector{T, R})[row] = val
+Data.streamto!{T, R}(sink::DataTable, ::Type{Data.Field}, val::Nullable{CategoricalValue{T, R}}, row, col, sch::Data.Schema{true}) =
+    (sink.columns[col]::NullableCategoricalVector{T, R})[row] = val
+
+function Data.streamto!{T}(sink::DataTable, ::Type{Data.Column}, column::T, row, col, sch::Data.Schema)
+    if row == 0
+        sink.columns[col] = column
+    else
+        append!(sink.columns[col]::T, column)
+    end
+    return length(column)
+end
+
+function Base.append!{T}(dest::NullableVector{WeakRefString{T}}, column::NullableVector{WeakRefString{T}})
+    offset = length(dest.values)
+    parentoffset = length(dest.parent)
+    append!(dest.isnull, column.isnull)
+    append!(dest.parent, column.parent)
+    # appending new data to `dest` would invalid all existing WeakRefString pointers
+    resize!(dest.values, length(dest) + length(column))
+    for i = 1:offset
+        old = dest.values[i]
+        dest.values[i] = WeakRefString{T}(pointer(dest.parent, old.ind), old.len, old.ind)
+    end
+    for i = 1:length(column)
+        old = column.values[i]
+        dest.values[offset + i] = WeakRefString{T}(pointer(dest.parent, parentoffset + old.ind), old.len, parentoffset + old.ind)
+    end
+    return length(dest)
+end
diff --git a/test/REQUIRE b/test/REQUIRE
index 644abb1..3f5122d 100644
--- a/test/REQUIRE
+++ b/test/REQUIRE
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 Compat 0.9.0
 DataStructures
-RData
 LaTeXStrings
-Atom
+CSV
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test/io.jl b/test/io.jl
index 336f881..6f042eb 100644
--- a/test/io.jl
+++ b/test/io.jl
@@ -51,4 +51,10 @@ module TestIO
 
     answer = Sys.WORD_SIZE == 64 ? 0x937e94e70d642cce : 0x2b8864d8
     @test hash(sprint(printtable, dt)) == answer
+
+    # DataStreams
+    using CSV
+
+    dt = CSV.read(joinpath(dirname(@__FILE__), "data/iris.csv"), DataTable)
+    @test size(dt) == (150, 5)
 end