diff --git a/dvc/cache/__init__.py b/dvc/cache/__init__.py
--- a/dvc/cache/__init__.py
+++ b/dvc/cache/__init__.py
@@ -36,7 +36,13 @@ class Cache:
     """
 
     CACHE_DIR = "cache"
-    CLOUD_SCHEMES = [Schemes.S3, Schemes.GS, Schemes.SSH, Schemes.HDFS]
+    CLOUD_SCHEMES = [
+        Schemes.S3,
+        Schemes.GS,
+        Schemes.SSH,
+        Schemes.HDFS,
+        Schemes.WEBHDFS,
+    ]
 
     def __init__(self, repo):
         self.repo = repo
diff --git a/dvc/config.py b/dvc/config.py
--- a/dvc/config.py
+++ b/dvc/config.py
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ class RelPath(str):
         "s3": str,
         "gs": str,
         "hdfs": str,
+        "webhdfs": str,
         "ssh": str,
         "azure": str,
         # This is for default local cache
@@ -195,6 +196,13 @@ class RelPath(str):
                     **REMOTE_COMMON,
                 },
                 "hdfs": {"user": str, **REMOTE_COMMON},
+                "webhdfs": {
+                    "hdfscli_config": str,
+                    "webhdfs_token": str,
+                    "user": str,
+                    "webhdfs_alias": str,
+                    **REMOTE_COMMON,
+                },
                 "azure": {"connection_string": str, **REMOTE_COMMON},
                 "oss": {
                     "oss_key_id": str,
diff --git a/dvc/dependency/__init__.py b/dvc/dependency/__init__.py
--- a/dvc/dependency/__init__.py
+++ b/dvc/dependency/__init__.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 from dvc.dependency.ssh import SSHDependency
 from dvc.dependency.webdav import WebDAVDependency
 from dvc.dependency.webdavs import WebDAVSDependency
+from dvc.dependency.webhdfs import WebHDFSDependency
 from dvc.output.base import BaseOutput
 from dvc.scheme import Schemes
 
@@ -28,7 +29,8 @@
     S3Dependency,
     SSHDependency,
     WebDAVDependency,
-    WebDAVSDependency
+    WebDAVSDependency,
+    WebHDFSDependency,
     # NOTE: LocalDependency is the default choice
 ]
 
@@ -43,6 +45,7 @@
     Schemes.HTTPS: HTTPSDependency,
     Schemes.WEBDAV: WebDAVDependency,
     Schemes.WEBDAVS: WebDAVSDependency,
+    Schemes.WEBHDFS: WebHDFSDependency,
 }
 
 
diff --git a/dvc/dependency/webhdfs.py b/dvc/dependency/webhdfs.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dvc/dependency/webhdfs.py
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+from dvc.dependency.base import BaseDependency
+from dvc.output.webhdfs import WebHDFSOutput
+
+
+class WebHDFSDependency(BaseDependency, WebHDFSOutput):
+    pass
diff --git a/dvc/output/__init__.py b/dvc/output/__init__.py
--- a/dvc/output/__init__.py
+++ b/dvc/output/__init__.py
@@ -11,18 +11,21 @@
 from dvc.output.local import LocalOutput
 from dvc.output.s3 import S3Output
 from dvc.output.ssh import SSHOutput
+from dvc.output.webhdfs import WebHDFSOutput
 from dvc.scheme import Schemes
 
 from ..tree import get_cloud_tree
 from ..tree.hdfs import HDFSTree
 from ..tree.local import LocalTree
 from ..tree.s3 import S3Tree
+from ..tree.webhdfs import WebHDFSTree
 
 OUTS = [
     HDFSOutput,
     S3Output,
     GSOutput,
     SSHOutput,
+    WebHDFSOutput,
     # NOTE: LocalOutput is the default choice
 ]
 
@@ -32,6 +35,7 @@
     Schemes.GS: GSOutput,
     Schemes.SSH: SSHOutput,
     Schemes.LOCAL: LocalOutput,
+    Schemes.WEBHDFS: WebHDFSOutput,
 }
 
 CHECKSUM_SCHEMA = Any(
@@ -52,6 +56,7 @@
     LocalTree.PARAM_CHECKSUM: CHECKSUM_SCHEMA,
     S3Tree.PARAM_CHECKSUM: CHECKSUM_SCHEMA,
     HDFSTree.PARAM_CHECKSUM: CHECKSUM_SCHEMA,
+    WebHDFSTree.PARAM_CHECKSUM: CHECKSUM_SCHEMA,
 }
 
 SCHEMA = CHECKSUMS_SCHEMA.copy()
diff --git a/dvc/output/webhdfs.py b/dvc/output/webhdfs.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dvc/output/webhdfs.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+from dvc.output.base import BaseOutput
+
+from ..tree.webhdfs import WebHDFSTree
+
+
+class WebHDFSOutput(BaseOutput):
+    TREE_CLS = WebHDFSTree
diff --git a/dvc/scheme.py b/dvc/scheme.py
--- a/dvc/scheme.py
+++ b/dvc/scheme.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 class Schemes:
     SSH = "ssh"
     HDFS = "hdfs"
+    WEBHDFS = "webhdfs"
     S3 = "s3"
     AZURE = "azure"
     HTTP = "http"
diff --git a/dvc/tree/__init__.py b/dvc/tree/__init__.py
--- a/dvc/tree/__init__.py
+++ b/dvc/tree/__init__.py
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 from .ssh import SSHTree
 from .webdav import WebDAVTree
 from .webdavs import WebDAVSTree
+from .webhdfs import WebHDFSTree
 
 TREES = [
     AzureTree,
@@ -26,6 +27,7 @@
     OSSTree,
     WebDAVTree,
     WebDAVSTree,
+    WebHDFSTree
     # NOTE: LocalTree is the default
 ]
 
diff --git a/dvc/tree/webhdfs.py b/dvc/tree/webhdfs.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dvc/tree/webhdfs.py
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+import logging
+import os
+import threading
+from contextlib import contextmanager
+from urllib.parse import urlparse
+
+from funcy import cached_property, wrap_prop
+
+from dvc.hash_info import HashInfo
+from dvc.path_info import CloudURLInfo
+from dvc.progress import Tqdm
+from dvc.scheme import Schemes
+
+from .base import BaseTree
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def update_pbar(pbar, total):
+    """Update pbar to accept the two arguments passed by hdfs"""
+
+    def update(_, bytes_transfered):
+        if bytes_transfered == -1:
+            pbar.update_to(total)
+            return
+        pbar.update_to(bytes_transfered)
+
+    return update
+
+
+class WebHDFSTree(BaseTree):
+    scheme = Schemes.WEBHDFS
+    PATH_CLS = CloudURLInfo
+    REQUIRES = {"hdfs": "hdfs"}
+    PARAM_CHECKSUM = "checksum"
+
+    def __init__(self, repo, config):
+        super().__init__(repo, config)
+
+        self.path_info = None
+        url = config.get("url")
+        if not url:
+            return
+
+        parsed = urlparse(url)
+        user = parsed.username or config.get("user")
+
+        self.path_info = self.PATH_CLS.from_parts(
+            scheme="webhdfs",
+            host=parsed.hostname,
+            user=user,
+            port=parsed.port,
+            path=parsed.path,
+        )
+
+        self.hdfscli_config = config.get("hdfscli_config")
+        self.token = config.get("webhdfs_token")
+        self.alias = config.get("webhdfs_alias")
+
+    @wrap_prop(threading.Lock())
+    @cached_property
+    def hdfs_client(self):
+        import hdfs
+
+        logger.debug("URL: %s", self.path_info)
+        logger.debug("HDFSConfig: %s", self.hdfscli_config)
+
+        try:
+            return hdfs.config.Config(self.hdfscli_config).get_client(
+                self.alias
+            )
+        except hdfs.util.HdfsError as exc:
+            exc_msg = str(exc)
+            errors = (
+                "No alias specified",
+                "Invalid configuration file",
+                f"Alias {self.alias} not found",
+            )
+            if not any(err in exc_msg for err in errors):
+                raise
+
+            http_url = f"http://{self.path_info.host}:{self.path_info.port}"
+
+            if self.token is not None:
+                client = hdfs.TokenClient(http_url, token=self.token, root="/")
+            else:
+                client = hdfs.InsecureClient(
+                    http_url, user=self.path_info.user, root="/"
+                )
+
+        return client
+
+    @contextmanager
+    def open(self, path_info, mode="r", encoding=None):
+        assert mode in {"r", "rt", "rb"}
+
+        with self.hdfs_client.read(
+            path_info.path, encoding=encoding
+        ) as reader:
+            yield reader.read()
+
+    def walk_files(self, path_info, **kwargs):
+        if not self.exists(path_info):
+            return
+
+        root = path_info.path
+        for path, _, files in self.hdfs_client.walk(root):
+            for file_ in files:
+                path = os.path.join(path, file_)
+                yield path_info.replace(path=path)
+
+    def remove(self, path_info):
+        if path_info.scheme != self.scheme:
+            raise NotImplementedError
+
+        self.hdfs_client.delete(path_info.path)
+
+    def exists(self, path_info, use_dvcignore=True):
+        assert not isinstance(path_info, list)
+        assert path_info.scheme == "webhdfs"
+
+        status = self.hdfs_client.status(path_info.path, strict=False)
+        return status is not None
+
+    def get_file_hash(self, path_info):
+        checksum = self.hdfs_client.checksum(path_info.path)
+        hash_info = HashInfo(self.PARAM_CHECKSUM, checksum["bytes"])
+
+        hash_info.size = self.hdfs_client.status(path_info.path)["length"]
+        return hash_info
+
+    def copy(self, from_info, to_info, **_kwargs):
+        with self.hdfs_client.read(from_info.path) as reader:
+            content = reader.read()
+        self.hdfs_client.write(to_info.path, data=content)
+
+    def move(self, from_info, to_info, mode=None):
+        self.hdfs_client.makedirs(to_info.parent.path)
+        self.hdfs_client.rename(from_info.path, to_info.path)
+
+    def _upload(
+        self, from_file, to_info, name=None, no_progress_bar=False, **_kwargs
+    ):
+        total = os.path.getsize(from_file)
+        with Tqdm(
+            desc=name, total=total, disable=no_progress_bar, bytes=True
+        ) as pbar:
+            self.hdfs_client.upload(
+                to_info.path,
+                from_file,
+                overwrite=True,
+                progress=update_pbar(pbar, total),
+            )
+
+    def _download(
+        self, from_info, to_file, name=None, no_progress_bar=False, **_kwargs
+    ):
+        total = self.hdfs_client.status(from_info.path)["length"]
+        with Tqdm(
+            desc=name, total=total, disable=no_progress_bar, bytes=True
+        ) as pbar:
+            self.hdfs_client.download(
+                from_info.path, to_file, progress=update_pbar(pbar, total)
+            )
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -98,13 +98,14 @@ def run(self):
 
 # Remove the env marker if/when pyarrow is available for Python3.9
 hdfs = ["pyarrow>=2.0.0;  python_version < '3.9'"]
+webhdfs = ["hdfs==2.5.8"]
 webdav = ["webdavclient3>=3.14.5"]
 # gssapi should not be included in all_remotes, because it doesn't have wheels
 # for linux and mac, so it will fail to compile if user doesn't have all the
 # requirements, including kerberos itself. Once all the wheels are available,
 # we can start shipping it by default.
 ssh_gssapi = ["paramiko[invoke,gssapi]>=2.7.0"]
-all_remotes = gs + s3 + azure + ssh + oss + gdrive + hdfs + webdav
+all_remotes = gs + s3 + azure + ssh + oss + gdrive + hdfs + webhdfs + webdav
 
 # Extra dependecies to run tests
 tests_requirements = [
@@ -173,6 +174,7 @@ def run(self):
         "ssh": ssh,
         "ssh_gssapi": ssh_gssapi,
         "hdfs": hdfs,
+        "webhdfs": webhdfs,
         "webdav": webdav,
         "tests": tests_requirements,
     },

Regarding the tests, as initial support, it would be totally fine to have some manual confirmation that the author of the PR has ran it and it works for him. But the next step could be to adjust our existing hdfs testing infrastructure (it spins docker container https://github.com/iterative/dvc/blob/master/tests/docker-compose.yml) to use webhdfs port too and create a `webhdfs` fixture in https://github.com/iterative/dvc/blob/master/tests/remotes/hdfs.py , that we could then add to the list in https://github.com/iterative/dvc/blob/c16d3fa43d144dc800aea7d7aa80f772bab4312b/tests/func/test_data_cloud.py#L24
Some info about performance:

```
For light load applications, WebHDFS and native protobuf RPCs provide comparable data throughput, but native connectivity is generally considered to be more scalable and suitable for production use.
```

from https://wesmckinney.com/blog/python-hdfs-interfaces/ . Though clearly it will depend on particular library, there might be some bad ones. But still, this is an experiment :slightly_smiling_face: 
diff --git a/tests/docker-compose.yml b/tests/docker-compose.yml
--- a/tests/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/tests/docker-compose.yml
@@ -11,9 +11,12 @@ services:
       - "8880"
   hdfs:
     image: rkuprieiev/docker-hdfs
+    hostname: localhost
     ports:
       - "8020"
       # NOTE: having this port as dynamic one will require modifying
       # `dfs.datanode.address` in `hdfs-site.xml` and probably something
       # else, so using default one for now.
       - "50010:50010"
+      - "50075:50075"
+      - "50070"
diff --git a/tests/func/test_add.py b/tests/func/test_add.py
--- a/tests/func/test_add.py
+++ b/tests/func/test_add.py
@@ -288,6 +288,11 @@ def test_add_filtered_files_in_dir(
             "checksum",
             "000002000000000000000000a86fe4d846edc1bf4c355cb6112f141e",
         ),
+        (
+            pytest.lazy_fixture("webhdfs"),
+            "checksum",
+            "000002000000000000000000a86fe4d846edc1bf4c355cb6112f141e00000000",
+        ),
     ],
     indirect=["workspace"],
 )
diff --git a/tests/func/test_api.py b/tests/func/test_api.py
--- a/tests/func/test_api.py
+++ b/tests/func/test_api.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
     "http",
     "hdfs",
     "webdav",
+    "webhdfs",
 ]
 clouds = [pytest.lazy_fixture(cloud) for cloud in cloud_names]
 all_clouds = [pytest.lazy_fixture("local_cloud")] + clouds
diff --git a/tests/func/test_data_cloud.py b/tests/func/test_data_cloud.py
--- a/tests/func/test_data_cloud.py
+++ b/tests/func/test_data_cloud.py
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
         "http",
         "hdfs",
         "webdav",
+        "webhdfs",
     ]
 ] + [
     pytest.param(
diff --git a/tests/func/test_gc.py b/tests/func/test_gc.py
--- a/tests/func/test_gc.py
+++ b/tests/func/test_gc.py
@@ -356,6 +356,7 @@ def test_gc_not_collect_pipeline_tracked_files(tmp_dir, dvc, run_copy):
         pytest.lazy_fixture("s3"),
         pytest.lazy_fixture("gs"),
         pytest.lazy_fixture("hdfs"),
+        pytest.lazy_fixture("webhdfs"),
         pytest.param(
             pytest.lazy_fixture("ssh"),
             marks=pytest.mark.skipif(
diff --git a/tests/func/test_import_url.py b/tests/func/test_import_url.py
--- a/tests/func/test_import_url.py
+++ b/tests/func/test_import_url.py
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ def test_import_url_with_no_exec(tmp_dir, dvc, erepo_dir):
         pytest.lazy_fixture("s3"),
         pytest.lazy_fixture("gs"),
         pytest.lazy_fixture("hdfs"),
+        pytest.lazy_fixture("webhdfs"),
         pytest.param(
             pytest.lazy_fixture("ssh"),
             marks=pytest.mark.skipif(
diff --git a/tests/func/test_update.py b/tests/func/test_update.py
--- a/tests/func/test_update.py
+++ b/tests/func/test_update.py
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ def test_update_before_and_after_dvc_init(tmp_dir, dvc, git_dir):
         pytest.lazy_fixture("s3"),
         pytest.lazy_fixture("gs"),
         pytest.lazy_fixture("hdfs"),
+        pytest.lazy_fixture("webhdfs"),
         pytest.param(
             pytest.lazy_fixture("ssh"),
             marks=pytest.mark.skipif(
diff --git a/tests/remotes/__init__.py b/tests/remotes/__init__.py
--- a/tests/remotes/__init__.py
+++ b/tests/remotes/__init__.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 import pytest
 
 from .azure import Azure, azure, azure_server  # noqa: F401
-from .hdfs import HDFS, hadoop, hdfs, hdfs_server  # noqa: F401
+from .hdfs import HDFS, hadoop, hdfs, hdfs_server, webhdfs  # noqa: F401
 from .http import HTTP, http, http_server  # noqa: F401
 from .local import Local, local_cloud, local_remote  # noqa: F401
 from .oss import (  # noqa: F401
diff --git a/tests/remotes/hdfs.py b/tests/remotes/hdfs.py
--- a/tests/remotes/hdfs.py
+++ b/tests/remotes/hdfs.py
@@ -119,6 +119,7 @@ def hdfs_server(hadoop, docker_compose, docker_services):
     import pyarrow
 
     port = docker_services.port_for("hdfs", 8020)
+    web_port = docker_services.port_for("hdfs", 50070)
 
     def _check():
         try:
@@ -136,11 +137,70 @@ def _check():
 
     docker_services.wait_until_responsive(timeout=30.0, pause=5, check=_check)
 
-    return port
+    return {"hdfs": port, "webhdfs": web_port}
 
 
 @pytest.fixture
 def hdfs(hdfs_server):
-    port = hdfs_server
+    port = hdfs_server["hdfs"]
     url = f"hdfs://127.0.0.1:{port}/{uuid.uuid4()}"
     yield HDFS(url)
+
+
+class WebHDFS(Base, URLInfo):  # pylint: disable=abstract-method
+    @contextmanager
+    def _webhdfs(self):
+        from hdfs import InsecureClient
+
+        client = InsecureClient(f"http://{self.host}:{self.port}", self.user)
+        yield client
+
+    def is_file(self):
+        with self._webhdfs() as _hdfs:
+            return _hdfs.status(self.path)["type"] == "FILE"
+
+    def is_dir(self):
+        with self._webhdfs() as _hdfs:
+            return _hdfs.status(self.path)["type"] == "DIRECTORY"
+
+    def exists(self):
+        with self._webhdfs() as _hdfs:
+            return _hdfs.status(self.path, strict=False) is not None
+
+    def mkdir(self, mode=0o777, parents=False, exist_ok=False):
+        assert mode == 0o777
+        assert parents
+        assert not exist_ok
+
+        with self._webhdfs() as _hdfs:
+            # NOTE: hdfs.makekdirs always creates parents
+            _hdfs.makedirs(self.path, permission=mode)
+
+    def write_bytes(self, contents):
+        with self._webhdfs() as _hdfs:
+            with _hdfs.write(self.path, overwrite=True) as writer:
+                writer.write(contents)
+
+    def write_text(self, contents, encoding=None, errors=None):
+        if not encoding:
+            encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding(False)
+        assert errors is None
+        self.write_bytes(contents.encode(encoding))
+
+    def read_bytes(self):
+        with self._webhdfs() as _hdfs:
+            with _hdfs.read(self.path) as reader:
+                return reader.read()
+
+    def read_text(self, encoding=None, errors=None):
+        if not encoding:
+            encoding = locale.getpreferredencoding(False)
+        assert errors is None
+        return self.read_bytes().decode(encoding)
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def webhdfs(hdfs_server):
+    port = hdfs_server["webhdfs"]
+    url = f"webhdfs://127.0.0.1:{port}/{uuid.uuid4()}"
+    yield WebHDFS(url)
diff --git a/tests/unit/remote/test_webhdfs.py b/tests/unit/remote/test_webhdfs.py
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/remote/test_webhdfs.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+from dvc.tree.webhdfs import WebHDFSTree
+
+user = "test"
+webhdfs_token = "token"
+webhdfs_alias = "alias-name"
+hdfscli_config = "path/to/cli/config"
+
+
+def test_init(dvc):
+    url = "webhdfs://test@127.0.0.1:50070"
+    config = {
+        "url": url,
+        "webhdfs_token": webhdfs_token,
+        "webhdfs_alias": webhdfs_alias,
+        "hdfscli_config": hdfscli_config,
+        "user": user,
+    }
+
+    tree = WebHDFSTree(dvc, config)
+    assert tree.path_info == url
+    assert tree.token == webhdfs_token
+    assert tree.alias == webhdfs_alias
+    assert tree.path_info.user == user
+    assert tree.hdfscli_config == hdfscli_config

add support for WebHDFS
We currently support real HDFS by using pyarrow, but the problem with it is that it still requires libhdfs, which has to be installed separately and in some cases (on osx) is not at all trivial to install (brew's hadoop package doesn't provide it, for example). See https://github.com/iterative/dvc/issues/4656 Also [pyarrow itself has caused us some problems](https://github.com/iterative/dvc/issues?q=is%3Aissue+pyarrow+), as it requires wheels to be present for all platforms.

WebHDFS is often enabled by default alongside pure HDFS and there are lots of available libs for working with it https://pypi.org/search/?q=hdfs . It would be great if we could implement some basic support for it to have it as a potential alternative to pure HDFS. To do that, we need to support urls that look like `webhdfs://example.com/path`, e.g.:

```
dvc remote add my webhdfs://example.com/path
```

which requires creating `dvc/tree/webhdfs.py` with an appropriate Tree class, which should at least implement these methods:

```
exists
_upload
_download
```
which will allow us to use `dvc push/fetch/pull/(status -c)`. One could use one of the existing implementation for other clouds in dvc/tree, e.g. https://github.com/iterative/dvc/blob/master/dvc/tree/oss.py  as a template.

tests/func/test_add.py::test_add_symlink_dir[True] tests/func/test_add.py::test_add_symlink_dir[False] tests/func/test_add.py::test_add_file_in_symlink_dir[True] tests/func/test_add.py::test_add_file_in_symlink_dir[False] tests/func/test_api.py::test_open_scm_controlled tests/func/test_data_cloud.py::test_data_cloud_error_cli tests/func/test_gc.py::test_gc_without_workspace tests/func/test_gc.py::test_gc_cloud_without_any_specifier tests/func/test_import_url.py::TestCmdImport::test_unsupported