diff --git a/pkgs/misc/hdt/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/hdt/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8a4c7c3e6f54
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/misc/hdt/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, autoreconfHook, libtool, pkgconfig, zlib, serd }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  pname = "hdt";
+  version = "1.3.3";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "rdfhdt";
+    repo = "hdt-cpp";
+    rev = "v${version}";
+    sha256 = "1vsq80jnix6cy78ayag7v8ajyw7h8dqyad1q6xkf2hzz3skvr34z";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ zlib serd ];
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook libtool pkgconfig ];
+
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = "http://www.rdfhdt.org/";
+    description = "Header Dictionary Triples (HDT) is a compression format for RDF data that can also be queried for Triple Patterns.";
+    license = licenses.lgpl21;
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+    maintainers = [ maintainers.koslambrou ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index e9e6234e92f3..3af07c731d39 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -12659,6 +12659,8 @@ in
 
   haxor-news = callPackage ../applications/misc/haxor-news { };
 
+  hdt = callPackage ../misc/hdt {};
+
   herqq = libsForQt5.callPackage ../development/libraries/herqq { };
 
   heyefi = haskellPackages.heyefi;