diff --git a/datafusion/Cargo.toml b/datafusion/Cargo.toml
index 3b91d0c77d907..91af7d570caaa 100644
--- a/datafusion/Cargo.toml
+++ b/datafusion/Cargo.toml
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ itertools = "0.9.0"
 lru = "0.6.5"
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["rc"] }
 serde_derive = "1.0"
+moka = "0.8.2"
 tracing = "0.1.25"
 tracing-futures = { version = "0.2.5", features = ["tokio", "tokio-executor"] }
 
diff --git a/datafusion/src/physical_plan/parquet.rs b/datafusion/src/physical_plan/parquet.rs
index 639d30146ba9a..8e4f5ca960d14 100644
--- a/datafusion/src/physical_plan/parquet.rs
+++ b/datafusion/src/physical_plan/parquet.rs
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 use std::fmt;
 use std::fs::File;
-use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
+use std::sync::Arc;
 use std::task::{Context, Poll};
 use std::{any::Any, convert::TryInto};
 
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ use parquet::file::{
 
 use fmt::Debug;
 use parquet::arrow::{ArrowReader, ParquetFileArrowReader};
+use std::fmt::Formatter;
+use std::time::Duration;
 
 use tokio::sync::mpsc::{channel, Receiver, Sender};
 use tokio_stream::wrappers::ReceiverStream;
@@ -59,6 +61,7 @@ use tokio_stream::wrappers::ReceiverStream;
 use crate::datasource::datasource::{ColumnStatistics, Statistics};
 use async_trait::async_trait;
 use futures::stream::{Stream, StreamExt};
+use moka::sync::Cache;
 use parquet::file::metadata::ParquetMetaData;
 
 use super::SQLMetric;
@@ -135,48 +138,6 @@ pub trait ParquetMetadataCache: Debug + Sync + Send {
             (*metadata).clone(),
         ))
     }
-
-    /// Returns a copy of the cache stats.
-    fn stats(&self) -> ParquetMetadataCacheStats;
-}
-
-/// Stats for ParquetMetadataCache.
-#[derive(Clone, Debug)]
-pub struct ParquetMetadataCacheStats {
-    hits: u64,
-    misses: u64,
-}
-
-impl ParquetMetadataCacheStats {
-    /// Returns a new ParquetMetadataCacheStats
-    pub fn new() -> Self {
-        ParquetMetadataCacheStats { hits: 0, misses: 0 }
-    }
-
-    /// Returns the number of cache reads.
-    pub fn reads(&self) -> u64 {
-        self.hits + self.misses
-    }
-
-    /// Returns the number of cache hits.
-    pub fn hits(&self) -> u64 {
-        self.hits
-    }
-
-    /// Returns the numbere of cache misses.
-    pub fn misses(&self) -> u64 {
-        self.misses
-    }
-
-    /// Increments the number of cache hits.
-    pub fn hit(&mut self) {
-        self.hits += 1;
-    }
-
-    /// Increments the number of cache misses.
-    pub fn miss(&mut self) {
-        self.misses += 1;
-    }
 }
 
 /// Default MetadataCache, does not cache anything
@@ -194,59 +155,45 @@ impl ParquetMetadataCache for NoopParquetMetadataCache {
     fn metadata(&self, _key: &str, file: &File) -> Result<Arc<ParquetMetaData>> {
         Ok(Arc::new(footer::parse_metadata(file)?))
     }
-
-    fn stats(&self) -> ParquetMetadataCacheStats {
-        ParquetMetadataCacheStats::new()
-    }
 }
 
 /// LruMetadataCache, caches parquet metadata.
-#[derive(Debug)]
 pub struct LruParquetMetadataCache {
-    data: Mutex<LruParquetMetadataCacheData>,
-}
-
-#[derive(Debug)]
-struct LruParquetMetadataCacheData {
-    cache: lru::LruCache<String, Arc<ParquetMetaData>>,
-    stats: ParquetMetadataCacheStats,
+    cache: Cache<String, Arc<ParquetMetaData>>,
 }
 
 impl LruParquetMetadataCache {
     /// Creates a new LruMetadataCache
-    pub fn new(metadata_cache_capacity: usize) -> Arc<Self> {
+    pub fn new(max_capacity: u64, time_to_idle: Duration) -> Arc<Self> {
         Arc::new(LruParquetMetadataCache {
-            data: Mutex::new(LruParquetMetadataCacheData {
-                cache: lru::LruCache::new(metadata_cache_capacity),
-                stats: ParquetMetadataCacheStats::new(),
-            }),
+            cache: moka::sync::Cache::builder()
+                .weigher(|_, value: &Arc<ParquetMetaData>| value.metadata_size())
+                .max_capacity(max_capacity)
+                .time_to_idle(time_to_idle)
+                .build(),
         })
     }
 }
 
+impl Debug for LruParquetMetadataCache {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
+        f.debug_struct("LruParquetMetadataCache")
+            .field("cache", &"<moka::sync::Cache>")
+            .finish()
+    }
+}
+
 impl ParquetMetadataCache for LruParquetMetadataCache {
     fn metadata(&self, key: &str, file: &File) -> Result<Arc<ParquetMetaData>> {
-        {
-            let mut data = self.data.lock().unwrap();
-            let metadata = data.cache.get(&key.to_string());
-            if let Some(metadata) = metadata {
-                let result = Ok(metadata.clone());
-                data.stats.hit();
-                return result;
-            } else {
-                data.stats.miss();
+        let k = key.to_string();
+        match self.cache.get(&k) {
+            Some(metadata) => Ok(metadata),
+            None => {
+                let metadata = Arc::new(footer::parse_metadata(file)?);
+                self.cache.insert(k, metadata.clone());
+                Ok(metadata)
             }
         }
-        let metadata = Arc::new(footer::parse_metadata(file)?);
-        {
-            let mut data = self.data.lock().unwrap();
-            data.cache.put(key.to_string(), metadata.clone());
-        }
-        Ok(metadata)
-    }
-
-    fn stats(&self) -> ParquetMetadataCacheStats {
-        self.data.lock().unwrap().stats.clone()
     }
 }