diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/columnar/InMemoryRelation.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/columnar/InMemoryRelation.scala
index 56bd5c1891e8d03df7d328cc83063240dfa58cda..479934a7afc75fd840baea4b0ad59799ef79cab6 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/columnar/InMemoryRelation.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/columnar/InMemoryRelation.scala
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 
 package org.apache.spark.sql.execution.columnar
 
+import scala.collection.JavaConverters._
+
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils
 
 import org.apache.spark.network.util.JavaUtils
@@ -29,7 +31,7 @@ import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.plans.logical
 import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.plans.logical.Statistics
 import org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan
 import org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel
-import org.apache.spark.util.LongAccumulator
+import org.apache.spark.util.CollectionAccumulator
 
 
 object InMemoryRelation {
@@ -61,7 +63,8 @@ case class InMemoryRelation(
     @transient child: SparkPlan,
     tableName: Option[String])(
     @transient var _cachedColumnBuffers: RDD[CachedBatch] = null,
-    val batchStats: LongAccumulator = child.sqlContext.sparkContext.longAccumulator)
+    val batchStats: CollectionAccumulator[InternalRow] =
+      child.sqlContext.sparkContext.collectionAccumulator[InternalRow])
   extends logical.LeafNode with MultiInstanceRelation {
 
   override protected def innerChildren: Seq[QueryPlan[_]] = Seq(child)
@@ -71,12 +74,21 @@ case class InMemoryRelation(
   @transient val partitionStatistics = new PartitionStatistics(output)
 
   override lazy val statistics: Statistics = {
-    if (batchStats.value == 0L) {
+    if (batchStats.value.isEmpty) {
       // Underlying columnar RDD hasn't been materialized, no useful statistics information
       // available, return the default statistics.
       Statistics(sizeInBytes = child.sqlContext.conf.defaultSizeInBytes)
     } else {
-      Statistics(sizeInBytes = batchStats.value.longValue)
+      // Underlying columnar RDD has been materialized, required information has also been
+      // collected via the `batchStats` accumulator.
+      val sizeOfRow: Expression =
+        BindReferences.bindReference(
+          output.map(a => partitionStatistics.forAttribute(a).sizeInBytes).reduce(Add),
+          partitionStatistics.schema)
+
+      val sizeInBytes =
+        batchStats.value.asScala.map(row => sizeOfRow.eval(row).asInstanceOf[Long]).sum
+      Statistics(sizeInBytes = sizeInBytes)
     }
   }
 
@@ -127,10 +139,10 @@ case class InMemoryRelation(
             rowCount += 1
           }
 
-          batchStats.add(totalSize)
-
           val stats = InternalRow.fromSeq(columnBuilders.map(_.columnStats.collectedStatistics)
             .flatMap(_.values))
+
+          batchStats.add(stats)
           CachedBatch(rowCount, columnBuilders.map { builder =>
             JavaUtils.bufferToArray(builder.build())
           }, stats)
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/columnar/InMemoryColumnarQuerySuite.scala b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/columnar/InMemoryColumnarQuerySuite.scala
index 0daa29b666f62158c3a4c8f654eaa31b6e18f8e6..937839644ad5f9a3086582b141948d9bb7217b6b 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/columnar/InMemoryColumnarQuerySuite.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/columnar/InMemoryColumnarQuerySuite.scala
@@ -232,18 +232,4 @@ class InMemoryColumnarQuerySuite extends QueryTest with SharedSQLContext {
     val columnTypes2 = List.fill(length2)(IntegerType)
     val columnarIterator2 = GenerateColumnAccessor.generate(columnTypes2)
   }
-
-  test("SPARK-17549: cached table size should be correctly calculated") {
-    val data = spark.sparkContext.parallelize(1 to 10, 5).toDF()
-    val plan = spark.sessionState.executePlan(data.logicalPlan).sparkPlan
-    val cached = InMemoryRelation(true, 5, MEMORY_ONLY, plan, None)
-
-    // Materialize the data.
-    val expectedAnswer = data.collect()
-    checkAnswer(cached, expectedAnswer)
-
-    // Check that the right size was calculated.
-    assert(cached.batchStats.value === expectedAnswer.size * INT.defaultSize)
-  }
-
 }