diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/azure-datalake-store/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/azure-datalake-store/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..508fa8bf87ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/azure-datalake-store/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+{ lib
+, buildPythonPackage
+, fetchPypi
+, requests
+, adal
+, azure-common
+, futures
+, pathlib2
+, isPy3k
+}:
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "azure-datalake-store";
+  version = "0.0.45";
+
+  src = fetchPypi {
+    inherit pname version;
+    sha256 = "1k2wkpdv30wjmi53zdcsa5xfqw8gyak39na73ja6rb7wy8196wbd";
+  };
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+    requests
+    adal
+    azure-common
+  ] ++ lib.optionals (!isPy3k) [
+    futures
+    pathlib2
+  ];
+
+  # has no tests
+  doCheck = false;
+
+  meta = with lib; {
+    description = "This project is the Python filesystem library for Azure Data Lake Store";
+    homepage = https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/python/api/overview/azure/data-lake-store?view=azure-python;
+    license = licenses.mit;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ mwilsoninsight ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index d5e153395d99..a9a4a6ca6b05 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -250,6 +250,8 @@ in {
 
   azure-cosmosdb-table = callPackage ../development/python-modules/azure-cosmosdb-table { };
 
+  azure-datalake-store = callPackage ../development/python-modules/azure-datalake-store { };
+
   azure-mgmt-common = callPackage ../development/python-modules/azure-mgmt-common { };
 
   azure-mgmt-compute = callPackage ../development/python-modules/azure-mgmt-compute { };