diff --git a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.2 b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.2
index deec033c21dae0ab3658673fb3328b9ec28c3c90..b5c38a6c056ecbe3431f16a5ff199d3e9981d098 100644
--- a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.2
+++ b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.2
@@ -72,13 +72,13 @@ hk2-utils-2.4.0-b34.jar
 httpclient-4.5.2.jar
 httpcore-4.4.4.jar
 ivy-2.4.0.jar
-jackson-annotations-2.7.3.jar
-jackson-core-2.7.3.jar
+jackson-annotations-2.6.5.jar
+jackson-core-2.6.5.jar
 jackson-core-asl-1.9.13.jar
-jackson-databind-2.7.3.jar
+jackson-databind-2.6.5.jar
 jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.13.jar
-jackson-module-paranamer-2.7.3.jar
-jackson-module-scala_2.11-2.7.3.jar
+jackson-module-paranamer-2.6.5.jar
+jackson-module-scala_2.11-2.6.5.jar
 janino-2.7.8.jar
 javassist-3.18.1-GA.jar
 javax.annotation-api-1.2.jar
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ objenesis-2.1.jar
 opencsv-2.3.jar
 oro-2.0.8.jar
 osgi-resource-locator-1.0.1.jar
-paranamer-2.8.jar
+paranamer-2.3.jar
 parquet-column-1.8.1.jar
 parquet-common-1.8.1.jar
 parquet-encoding-1.8.1.jar
diff --git a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.3 b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.3
index 43c7dd35805dc94d6caccd69eeb32972e67c25d6..969df0495d4c92e4a6f6dcf0b4aa48111a4b30b6 100644
--- a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.3
+++ b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.3
@@ -74,13 +74,13 @@ hk2-utils-2.4.0-b34.jar
 httpclient-4.5.2.jar
 httpcore-4.4.4.jar
 ivy-2.4.0.jar
-jackson-annotations-2.7.3.jar
-jackson-core-2.7.3.jar
+jackson-annotations-2.6.5.jar
+jackson-core-2.6.5.jar
 jackson-core-asl-1.9.13.jar
-jackson-databind-2.7.3.jar
+jackson-databind-2.6.5.jar
 jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.13.jar
-jackson-module-paranamer-2.7.3.jar
-jackson-module-scala_2.11-2.7.3.jar
+jackson-module-paranamer-2.6.5.jar
+jackson-module-scala_2.11-2.6.5.jar
 janino-2.7.8.jar
 java-xmlbuilder-1.0.jar
 javassist-3.18.1-GA.jar
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ objenesis-2.1.jar
 opencsv-2.3.jar
 oro-2.0.8.jar
 osgi-resource-locator-1.0.1.jar
-paranamer-2.8.jar
+paranamer-2.3.jar
 parquet-column-1.8.1.jar
 parquet-common-1.8.1.jar
 parquet-encoding-1.8.1.jar
diff --git a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.4 b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.4
index 7186b305a8af72342acdc6feb1dc4dc3ac0761c0..f0491ece7c2b40ba7577cfaca65eb7bf406b1fb1 100644
--- a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.4
+++ b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.4
@@ -74,13 +74,13 @@ hk2-utils-2.4.0-b34.jar
 httpclient-4.5.2.jar
 httpcore-4.4.4.jar
 ivy-2.4.0.jar
-jackson-annotations-2.7.3.jar
-jackson-core-2.7.3.jar
+jackson-annotations-2.6.5.jar
+jackson-core-2.6.5.jar
 jackson-core-asl-1.9.13.jar
-jackson-databind-2.7.3.jar
+jackson-databind-2.6.5.jar
 jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.13.jar
-jackson-module-paranamer-2.7.3.jar
-jackson-module-scala_2.11-2.7.3.jar
+jackson-module-paranamer-2.6.5.jar
+jackson-module-scala_2.11-2.6.5.jar
 janino-2.7.8.jar
 java-xmlbuilder-1.0.jar
 javassist-3.18.1-GA.jar
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ objenesis-2.1.jar
 opencsv-2.3.jar
 oro-2.0.8.jar
 osgi-resource-locator-1.0.1.jar
-paranamer-2.8.jar
+paranamer-2.3.jar
 parquet-column-1.8.1.jar
 parquet-common-1.8.1.jar
 parquet-encoding-1.8.1.jar
diff --git a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.6 b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.6
index 3e4ed74cc6b2512113afede6e93e8aed59cb2d06..b3dced63b9e7f183e080f0242f60faf9cd0ec9e5 100644
--- a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.6
+++ b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.6
@@ -80,14 +80,14 @@ htrace-core-3.0.4.jar
 httpclient-4.5.2.jar
 httpcore-4.4.4.jar
 ivy-2.4.0.jar
-jackson-annotations-2.7.3.jar
-jackson-core-2.7.3.jar
+jackson-annotations-2.6.5.jar
+jackson-core-2.6.5.jar
 jackson-core-asl-1.9.13.jar
-jackson-databind-2.7.3.jar
+jackson-databind-2.6.5.jar
 jackson-jaxrs-1.9.13.jar
 jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.13.jar
-jackson-module-paranamer-2.7.3.jar
-jackson-module-scala_2.11-2.7.3.jar
+jackson-module-paranamer-2.6.5.jar
+jackson-module-scala_2.11-2.6.5.jar
 jackson-xc-1.9.13.jar
 janino-2.7.8.jar
 java-xmlbuilder-1.0.jar
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ objenesis-2.1.jar
 opencsv-2.3.jar
 oro-2.0.8.jar
 osgi-resource-locator-1.0.1.jar
-paranamer-2.8.jar
+paranamer-2.3.jar
 parquet-column-1.8.1.jar
 parquet-common-1.8.1.jar
 parquet-encoding-1.8.1.jar
diff --git a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.7 b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.7
index 6b999538a3dd8820f024ccdd7a1a4c1396ef326a..16f60f29ffbb2f1390f24bbc8da505853b416645 100644
--- a/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.7
+++ b/dev/deps/spark-deps-hadoop-2.7
@@ -80,14 +80,14 @@ htrace-core-3.1.0-incubating.jar
 httpclient-4.5.2.jar
 httpcore-4.4.4.jar
 ivy-2.4.0.jar
-jackson-annotations-2.7.3.jar
-jackson-core-2.7.3.jar
+jackson-annotations-2.6.5.jar
+jackson-core-2.6.5.jar
 jackson-core-asl-1.9.13.jar
-jackson-databind-2.7.3.jar
+jackson-databind-2.6.5.jar
 jackson-jaxrs-1.9.13.jar
 jackson-mapper-asl-1.9.13.jar
-jackson-module-paranamer-2.7.3.jar
-jackson-module-scala_2.11-2.7.3.jar
+jackson-module-paranamer-2.6.5.jar
+jackson-module-scala_2.11-2.6.5.jar
 jackson-xc-1.9.13.jar
 janino-2.7.8.jar
 java-xmlbuilder-1.0.jar
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ objenesis-2.1.jar
 opencsv-2.3.jar
 oro-2.0.8.jar
 osgi-resource-locator-1.0.1.jar
-paranamer-2.8.jar
+paranamer-2.3.jar
 parquet-column-1.8.1.jar
 parquet-common-1.8.1.jar
 parquet-encoding-1.8.1.jar
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index ce9aa9aa00cc08cb7bdfac131aa2422a5ace842b..fff5560afea2a8e03608d974cc5f27cb8d584724 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@
     <jline.version>${scala.version}</jline.version>
     <jline.groupid>org.scala-lang</jline.groupid>
     <codehaus.jackson.version>1.9.13</codehaus.jackson.version>
-    <fasterxml.jackson.version>2.7.3</fasterxml.jackson.version>
+    <fasterxml.jackson.version>2.6.5</fasterxml.jackson.version>
     <snappy.version>1.1.2.4</snappy.version>
     <netlib.java.version>1.1.2</netlib.java.version>
     <calcite.version>1.2.0-incubating</calcite.version>
@@ -180,7 +180,6 @@
     <antlr4.version>4.5.3</antlr4.version>
     <jpam.version>1.1</jpam.version>
     <selenium.version>2.52.0</selenium.version>
-    <paranamer.version>2.8</paranamer.version>
 
     <test.java.home>${java.home}</test.java.home>
     <test.exclude.tags></test.exclude.tags>
@@ -1826,11 +1825,6 @@
         <artifactId>antlr4-runtime</artifactId>
         <version>${antlr4.version}</version>
       </dependency>
-      <dependency>
-        <groupId>com.thoughtworks.paranamer</groupId>
-        <artifactId>paranamer</artifactId>
-        <version>${paranamer.version}</version>
-      </dependency>
     </dependencies>
   </dependencyManagement>
 
diff --git a/python/pyspark/sql/readwriter.py b/python/pyspark/sql/readwriter.py
index 13d21d7143d28333f46f40aab7c86518e624866f..73105f881b464c32fbc473db2e43367cfd00ebf4 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/sql/readwriter.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/sql/readwriter.py
@@ -193,9 +193,6 @@ class DataFrameReader(object):
                                         set, it uses the default value, ``true``.
         :param allowNumericLeadingZero: allows leading zeros in numbers (e.g. 00012). If None is
                                         set, it uses the default value, ``false``.
-        :param allowNonNumericNumbers: allows using non-numeric numbers such as "NaN", "Infinity",
-                                       "-Infinity", "INF", "-INF", which are convertd to floating
-                                       point numbers, ``true``.
         :param allowBackslashEscapingAnyCharacter: allows accepting quoting of all character
                                                    using backslash quoting mechanism. If None is
                                                    set, it uses the default value, ``false``.
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 20578780283835f70424c72d5dd8656e8214eba8..88fa5cd21d58fd485efea186665dde14768e0204 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
@@ -293,8 +293,6 @@ class DataFrameReader private[sql](sparkSession: SparkSession) extends Logging {
    * </li>
    * <li>`allowNumericLeadingZeros` (default `false`): allows leading zeros in numbers
    * (e.g. 00012)</li>
-   * <li>`allowNonNumericNumbers` (default `true`): allows using non-numeric numbers such as "NaN",
-   * "Infinity", "-Infinity", "INF", "-INF", which are convertd to floating point numbers.</li>
    * <li>`allowBackslashEscapingAnyCharacter` (default `false`): allows accepting quoting of all
    * character using backslash quoting mechanism</li>
    * <li>`mode` (default `PERMISSIVE`): allows a mode for dealing with corrupt records
diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/json/JacksonParser.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/json/JacksonParser.scala
index cafca323187d664de98f18c8cc9ddeed09cb3662..aeee2600a19ee3ff5970c9c0ed7fa60244af98dd 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/json/JacksonParser.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/json/JacksonParser.scala
@@ -129,15 +129,13 @@ object JacksonParser extends Logging {
       case (VALUE_STRING, FloatType) =>
         // Special case handling for NaN and Infinity.
         val value = parser.getText
-        if (value.equals("NaN") ||
-          value.equals("Infinity") ||
-          value.equals("+Infinity") ||
-          value.equals("-Infinity")) {
+        val lowerCaseValue = value.toLowerCase()
+        if (lowerCaseValue.equals("nan") ||
+          lowerCaseValue.equals("infinity") ||
+          lowerCaseValue.equals("-infinity") ||
+          lowerCaseValue.equals("inf") ||
+          lowerCaseValue.equals("-inf")) {
           value.toFloat
-        } else if (value.equals("+INF") || value.equals("INF")) {
-          Float.PositiveInfinity
-        } else if (value.equals("-INF")) {
-          Float.NegativeInfinity
         } else {
           throw new SparkSQLJsonProcessingException(s"Cannot parse $value as FloatType.")
         }
@@ -148,15 +146,13 @@ object JacksonParser extends Logging {
       case (VALUE_STRING, DoubleType) =>
         // Special case handling for NaN and Infinity.
         val value = parser.getText
-        if (value.equals("NaN") ||
-          value.equals("Infinity") ||
-          value.equals("+Infinity") ||
-          value.equals("-Infinity")) {
+        val lowerCaseValue = value.toLowerCase()
+        if (lowerCaseValue.equals("nan") ||
+          lowerCaseValue.equals("infinity") ||
+          lowerCaseValue.equals("-infinity") ||
+          lowerCaseValue.equals("inf") ||
+          lowerCaseValue.equals("-inf")) {
           value.toDouble
-        } else if (value.equals("+INF") || value.equals("INF")) {
-          Double.PositiveInfinity
-        } else if (value.equals("-INF")) {
-          Double.NegativeInfinity
         } else {
           throw new SparkSQLJsonProcessingException(s"Cannot parse $value as DoubleType.")
         }
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/json/JsonParsingOptionsSuite.scala b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/json/JsonParsingOptionsSuite.scala
index 2aab955c1ecbd973b20bbb63afeffcecbecdf5ad..c31dffedbdf673ac62ab16783547827c0a058505 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/json/JsonParsingOptionsSuite.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/json/JsonParsingOptionsSuite.scala
@@ -19,7 +19,6 @@ package org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.json
 
 import org.apache.spark.sql.QueryTest
 import org.apache.spark.sql.test.SharedSQLContext
-import org.apache.spark.sql.types.{DoubleType, StructField, StructType}
 
 /**
  * Test cases for various [[JSONOptions]].
@@ -94,51 +93,23 @@ class JsonParsingOptionsSuite extends QueryTest with SharedSQLContext {
     assert(df.first().getLong(0) == 18)
   }
 
-  test("allowNonNumericNumbers off") {
-    // non-quoted non-numeric numbers don't work if allowNonNumericNumbers is off.
-    var testCases: Seq[String] = Seq("""{"age": NaN}""", """{"age": Infinity}""",
-      """{"age": +Infinity}""", """{"age": -Infinity}""", """{"age": INF}""",
-      """{"age": +INF}""", """{"age": -INF}""")
-    testCases.foreach { str =>
-      val rdd = spark.sparkContext.parallelize(Seq(str))
-      val df = spark.read.option("allowNonNumericNumbers", "false").json(rdd)
-
-      assert(df.schema.head.name == "_corrupt_record")
-    }
-
-    // quoted non-numeric numbers should still work even allowNonNumericNumbers is off.
-    testCases = Seq("""{"age": "NaN"}""", """{"age": "Infinity"}""", """{"age": "+Infinity"}""",
-      """{"age": "-Infinity"}""", """{"age": "INF"}""", """{"age": "+INF"}""",
-      """{"age": "-INF"}""")
-    val tests: Seq[Double => Boolean] = Seq(_.isNaN, _.isPosInfinity, _.isPosInfinity,
-      _.isNegInfinity, _.isPosInfinity, _.isPosInfinity, _.isNegInfinity)
-    val schema = StructType(StructField("age", DoubleType, true) :: Nil)
-
-    testCases.zipWithIndex.foreach { case (str, idx) =>
-      val rdd = spark.sparkContext.parallelize(Seq(str))
-      val df = spark.read.option("allowNonNumericNumbers", "false").schema(schema).json(rdd)
-
-      assert(df.schema.head.name == "age")
-      assert(tests(idx)(df.first().getDouble(0)))
-    }
+  // The following two tests are not really working - need to look into Jackson's
+  // JsonParser.Feature.ALLOW_NON_NUMERIC_NUMBERS.
+  ignore("allowNonNumericNumbers off") {
+    val str = """{"age": NaN}"""
+    val rdd = spark.sparkContext.parallelize(Seq(str))
+    val df = spark.read.json(rdd)
+
+    assert(df.schema.head.name == "_corrupt_record")
   }
 
-  test("allowNonNumericNumbers on") {
-    val testCases: Seq[String] = Seq("""{"age": NaN}""", """{"age": Infinity}""",
-      """{"age": +Infinity}""", """{"age": -Infinity}""", """{"age": +INF}""",
-      """{"age": -INF}""", """{"age": "NaN"}""", """{"age": "Infinity"}""",
-      """{"age": "-Infinity"}""")
-    val tests: Seq[Double => Boolean] = Seq(_.isNaN, _.isPosInfinity, _.isPosInfinity,
-      _.isNegInfinity, _.isPosInfinity, _.isNegInfinity, _.isNaN, _.isPosInfinity,
-      _.isNegInfinity, _.isPosInfinity, _.isNegInfinity)
-    val schema = StructType(StructField("age", DoubleType, true) :: Nil)
-    testCases.zipWithIndex.foreach { case (str, idx) =>
-      val rdd = spark.sparkContext.parallelize(Seq(str))
-      val df = spark.read.option("allowNonNumericNumbers", "true").schema(schema).json(rdd)
-
-      assert(df.schema.head.name == "age")
-      assert(tests(idx)(df.first().getDouble(0)))
-    }
+  ignore("allowNonNumericNumbers on") {
+    val str = """{"age": NaN}"""
+    val rdd = spark.sparkContext.parallelize(Seq(str))
+    val df = spark.read.option("allowNonNumericNumbers", "true").json(rdd)
+
+    assert(df.schema.head.name == "age")
+    assert(df.first().getDouble(0).isNaN)
   }
 
   test("allowBackslashEscapingAnyCharacter off") {