diff --git a/tempto-core/src/main/java/io/trino/tempto/hadoop/hdfs/HdfsClient.java b/tempto-core/src/main/java/io/trino/tempto/hadoop/hdfs/HdfsClient.java
index 59024154..6e5a6be3 100644
--- a/tempto-core/src/main/java/io/trino/tempto/hadoop/hdfs/HdfsClient.java
+++ b/tempto-core/src/main/java/io/trino/tempto/hadoop/hdfs/HdfsClient.java
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ InputStream getInputStream()
 
     void createDirectory(String path);
 
+    void rename(String sourcePath, String destinationPath);
+
     void delete(String path);
 
     void saveFile(String path, InputStream input);
diff --git a/tempto-core/src/main/java/io/trino/tempto/internal/hadoop/hdfs/WebHdfsClient.java b/tempto-core/src/main/java/io/trino/tempto/internal/hadoop/hdfs/WebHdfsClient.java
index 2c00f46c..0d7153c6 100644
--- a/tempto-core/src/main/java/io/trino/tempto/internal/hadoop/hdfs/WebHdfsClient.java
+++ b/tempto-core/src/main/java/io/trino/tempto/internal/hadoop/hdfs/WebHdfsClient.java
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type.TypeReference;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
-import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
 import com.google.inject.Inject;
 import com.google.inject.name.Named;
@@ -106,6 +105,21 @@ public void createDirectory(String path)
         }
     }
 
+    @Override
+    public void rename(String sourcePath, String destinationPath)
+    {
+        HttpPut renameRequest = new HttpPut(buildUri(sourcePath, "RENAME", ImmutableMap.of("destination", destinationPath)));
+        try (CloseableHttpResponse response = httpRequestsExecutor.execute(renameRequest)) {
+            if (response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() != SC_OK) {
+                throw invalidStatusException("RENAME", sourcePath, renameRequest, response);
+            }
+            logger.debug("Renamed file/directory {} to {} - username: {}", sourcePath, destinationPath, username);
+        }
+        catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new RuntimeException("Could not rename file/directory " + sourcePath + " to " + destinationPath + " in hdfs, user: " + username, e);
+        }
+    }
+
     @Override
     public void delete(String path)
     {
diff --git a/tempto-examples/src/main/java/io/trino/tempto/examples/HdfsClientTest.java b/tempto-examples/src/main/java/io/trino/tempto/examples/HdfsClientTest.java
index dd77b350..c0b7afee 100644
--- a/tempto-examples/src/main/java/io/trino/tempto/examples/HdfsClientTest.java
+++ b/tempto-examples/src/main/java/io/trino/tempto/examples/HdfsClientTest.java
@@ -60,5 +60,10 @@ public void testMetadataOperations() {
         hdfsClient.createDirectory(testPath + "/b");
         hdfsClient.createDirectory(testPath + "/c");
         assertThat(hdfsClient.listDirectory(testPath)).containsAll(ImmutableList.of("a", "b", "c"));
+
+        hdfsClient.createDirectory(testPath + "/rename");
+        hdfsClient.createDirectory(testPath + "/rename/src");
+        hdfsClient.rename(testPath + "/rename/src", testPath + "/rename/dest");
+        assertThat(hdfsClient.listDirectory(testPath + "/rename")).containsAll(ImmutableList.of("dest"));
     }
 }