diff --git a/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20220924-143713.yaml b/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20220924-143713.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c537a9395
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/unreleased/Under the Hood-20220924-143713.yaml	
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+kind: Under the Hood
+body: Convert df to pyspark DataFrame if it is koalas before writing
+time: 2022-09-24T14:37:13.100404-06:00
+custom:
+  Author: dbeatty10 ueshin
+  Issue: "473"
+  PR: "474"
diff --git a/dbt/include/spark/macros/materializations/table.sql b/dbt/include/spark/macros/materializations/table.sql
index 25d70c722..5721bd25e 100644
--- a/dbt/include/spark/macros/materializations/table.sql
+++ b/dbt/include/spark/macros/materializations/table.sql
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ import importlib.util
 
 pandas_available = False
 pyspark_available = False
+koalas_available = False
 
 # make sure pandas exists before using it
 if importlib.util.find_spec("pandas"):
@@ -57,17 +58,26 @@ if importlib.util.find_spec("pyspark.pandas"):
   import pyspark.pandas
   pyspark_available = True
 
-# preferentially convert pandas DataFrames to pandas-on-Spark DataFrames first
+# make sure databricks.koalas exists before using it
+if importlib.util.find_spec("databricks.koalas"):
+  import databricks.koalas
+  koalas_available = True
+
+# preferentially convert pandas DataFrames to pandas-on-Spark or Koalas DataFrames first
 # since they know how to convert pandas DataFrames better than `spark.createDataFrame(df)`
 # and converting from pandas-on-Spark to Spark DataFrame has no overhead
 if pyspark_available and pandas_available and isinstance(df, pandas.core.frame.DataFrame):
   df = pyspark.pandas.frame.DataFrame(df)
+elif koalas_available and pandas_available and isinstance(df, pandas.core.frame.DataFrame):
+  df = databricks.koalas.frame.DataFrame(df)
 
 # convert to pyspark.sql.dataframe.DataFrame
 if isinstance(df, pyspark.sql.dataframe.DataFrame):
   pass  # since it is already a Spark DataFrame
 elif pyspark_available and isinstance(df, pyspark.pandas.frame.DataFrame):
   df = df.to_spark()
+elif koalas_available and isinstance(df, databricks.koalas.frame.DataFrame):
+  df = df.to_spark()
 elif pandas_available and isinstance(df, pandas.core.frame.DataFrame):
   df = spark.createDataFrame(df)
 else: