diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 6a100113..10f42604 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ BitIntegers = "0.2"
 CodecLz4 = "0.4"
 CodecZstd = "0.7"
 DataAPI = "1"
+DataFrames = "1.5"
 LoggingExtras = "0.4, 1"
 FilePathsBase = "0.9"
 PooledArrays = "0.5, 1.0"
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@ julia = "1.6"
 
 [extras]
 CategoricalArrays = "324d7699-5711-5eae-9e2f-1d82baa6b597"
+DataFrames = "a93c6f00-e57d-5684-b7b6-d8193f3e46c0"
 FilePathsBase = "48062228-2e41-5def-b9a4-89aafe57970f"
 JSON3 = "0f8b85d8-7281-11e9-16c2-39a750bddbf1"
 Random = "9a3f8284-a2c9-5f02-9a11-845980a1fd5c"
diff --git a/src/write.jl b/src/write.jl
index 5c965cac..9a23b109 100644
--- a/src/write.jl
+++ b/src/write.jl
@@ -48,14 +48,29 @@ Supported keyword arguments to `Arrow.write` include:
   * `metadata=Arrow.getmetadata(tbl)`: the metadata that should be written as the table's schema's `custom_metadata` field; must either be `nothing` or an iterable of `<:AbstractString` pairs.
   * `ntasks::Int`: number of buffered threaded tasks to allow while writing input partitions out as arrow record batches; default is no limit; for unbuffered writing, pass `ntasks=0`
   * `file::Bool=false`: if a an `io` argument is being written to, passing `file=true` will cause the arrow file format to be written instead of just IPC streaming
+  * `chunksize::Union{Nothing,Integer}=64000`: if a table is being written, this will cause the table to be partitioned into chunks of the given size (`chunksize` rows); if `nothing`, no partitioning will occur
 """
 function write end
 
 write(io_or_file; kw...) = x -> write(io_or_file, x; kw...)
 
-function write(file_path, tbl; kwargs...)
+function write(file_path, tbl; chunksize::Union{Nothing,Integer}=64000, kwargs...)
+    # rowaccces is a necessary pre-requisite for row-iteration (not sufficient though)
+    if !isnothing(chunksize) && Tables.istable(tbl) && Tables.rowaccess(tbl)
+        @assert chunksize >= 0 "chunksize must be >= 0"
+        if hasmethod(Iterators.partition,(typeof(tbl),))
+            tbl_source = Iterators.partition(tbl, chunksize)
+            # verify that we iterated over rows, not columns
+            @assert length(tbl_source) == cld(size(tbl)[1], chunksize) "Default partitioning method has failed for the provided table (chunks expected: $(cld(size(tbl)[1], chunksize)), chunks found: $(length(tbl_source))). Please set `chunksize=nothing` to disable chunking"
+        else 
+            # general fallback
+            tbl_source = Iterators.partition(Tables.rows(tbl), chunksize)
+        end
+    else
+        tbl_source = tbl 
+    end
     open(Writer, file_path; file=true, kwargs...) do writer
-        write(writer, tbl)
+        write(writer, tbl_source)
     end
     file_path
 end
@@ -278,9 +293,23 @@ function Base.close(writer::Writer)
     nothing
 end
 
-function write(io::IO, tbl; kwargs...)
+function write(io::IO, tbl; chunksize::Union{Nothing,Integer}=64000, kwargs...)
+    # rowaccces is a necessary pre-requisite for row-iteration (not sufficient though)
+    if !isnothing(chunksize) && Tables.istable(tbl) && Tables.rowaccess(tbl)
+        @assert chunksize >= 0 "chunksize must be >= 0"
+        if hasmethod(Iterators.partition,(typeof(tbl),))
+            tbl_source = Iterators.partition(tbl, chunksize)
+            # verify that we iterated over rows, not columns
+            @assert length(tbl_source) == cld(size(tbl)[1], chunksize) "Default partitioning method has failed for the provided table (chunks expected: $(cld(size(tbl)[1], chunksize)), chunks found: $(length(tbl_source))). Please set `chunksize=nothing` to disable chunking"
+        else 
+            # general fallback
+            tbl_source = Iterators.partition(Tables.rows(tbl), chunksize)
+        end
+    else
+        tbl_source = tbl 
+    end
     open(Writer, io; file=false, kwargs...) do writer
-        write(writer, tbl)
+        write(writer, tbl_source)
     end
     io
 end