diff --git a/backends-velox/pom.xml b/backends-velox/pom.xml
index eb5830bddb61..bf4c731903bc 100644
--- a/backends-velox/pom.xml
+++ b/backends-velox/pom.xml
@@ -592,5 +592,31 @@
         </dependency>
       </dependencies>
     </profile>
+    <profile>
+      <id>kafka</id>
+      <activation>
+        <activeByDefault>false</activeByDefault>
+      </activation>
+      <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+          <groupId>org.apache.gluten</groupId>
+          <artifactId>gluten-kafka</artifactId>
+          <version>${project.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+          <groupId>org.apache.gluten</groupId>
+          <artifactId>gluten-kafka</artifactId>
+          <version>${project.version}</version>
+          <type>test-jar</type>
+          <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+          <groupId>org.apache.spark</groupId>
+          <artifactId>spark-sql-kafka-0-10_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
+          <version>${spark.version}</version>
+          <scope>provided</scope>
+        </dependency>
+      </dependencies>
+    </profile>
   </profiles>
 </project>
diff --git a/cpp/velox/operators/reader/KafkaReader.cc b/cpp/velox/operators/reader/KafkaReader.cc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1bc4a9680b79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cpp/velox/operators/reader/KafkaReader.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#include "KafkaReader.h"
+
+namespace gluten {
+
+// Implementation placeholder for KafkaReader
+// This file will contain the actual implementation of Kafka reading logic
+// including:
+// - Kafka consumer initialization
+// - Message polling and deserialization
+// - Offset management
+// - Error handling and retry logic
+
+} // namespace gluten
diff --git a/cpp/velox/operators/reader/KafkaReader.h b/cpp/velox/operators/reader/KafkaReader.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..32d8b41bebcb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cpp/velox/operators/reader/KafkaReader.h
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include "velox/connectors/Connector.h"
+#include "velox/exec/Operator.h"
+
+namespace gluten {
+
+/// Kafka reader operator for streaming Kafka data
+/// This is a placeholder implementation that will be extended
+/// to support actual Kafka consumption in the Velox backend
+class KafkaReader : public facebook::velox::exec::SourceOperator {
+ public:
+  KafkaReader(
+      int32_t operatorId,
+      facebook::velox::exec::DriverCtx* driverCtx,
+      const std::shared_ptr<const facebook::velox::core::PlanNode>& planNode)
+      : SourceOperator(
+            driverCtx,
+            planNode->outputType(),
+            operatorId,
+            planNode->id(),
+            "KafkaReader") {}
+
+  facebook::velox::RowVectorPtr getOutput() override {
+    // TODO: Implement actual Kafka reading logic
+    // This should:
+    // 1. Connect to Kafka broker
+    // 2. Read messages from the specified topic/partition
+    // 3. Convert Kafka messages to RowVector format
+    // 4. Handle offset management
+    return nullptr;
+  }
+
+  facebook::velox::BlockingReason isBlocked(
+      facebook::velox::ContinueFuture* future) override {
+    return facebook::velox::BlockingReason::kNotBlocked;
+  }
+
+  bool isFinished() override {
+    return noMoreSplits_ && !hasSplit_;
+  }
+
+ private:
+  bool noMoreSplits_ = false;
+  bool hasSplit_ = false;
+};
+
+} // namespace gluten
diff --git a/cpp/velox/substrait/SubstraitToVeloxPlan.cc b/cpp/velox/substrait/SubstraitToVeloxPlan.cc
index adb7fc5f45b6..86a0f9a85979 100644
--- a/cpp/velox/substrait/SubstraitToVeloxPlan.cc
+++ b/cpp/velox/substrait/SubstraitToVeloxPlan.cc
@@ -1682,6 +1682,13 @@ std::string SubstraitToVeloxPlanConverter::findFuncSpec(uint64_t id) {
 }
 
 int32_t SubstraitToVeloxPlanConverter::getStreamIndex(const ::substrait::ReadRel& sRead) {
+  // Check if this is a Kafka stream
+  if (sRead.stream_kafka()) {
+    // For Kafka streams, we don't use the iterator pattern
+    // Return -1 to indicate this should be handled as a regular scan
+    return -1;
+  }
+  
   if (sRead.has_local_files()) {
     const auto& fileList = sRead.local_files().items();
     if (fileList.size() == 0) {