diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/rdd/VectorRDDFunctions.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/rdd/VectorRDDFunctions.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..829c058ec03c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/rdd/VectorRDDFunctions.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.spark.mllib.rdd
+
+import breeze.linalg.{Vector => BV, *}
+
+import org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.{Vector, Vectors}
+import org.apache.spark.mllib.util.MLUtils._
+import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
+
+/**
+ * Extra functions available on RDDs of [[org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.Vector Vector]] through an implicit conversion.
+ * Import `org.apache.spark.MLContext._` at the top of your program to use these functions.
+ */
+class VectorRDDFunctions(self: RDD[Vector]) extends Serializable {
+
+  def rowMeans(): RDD[Double] = {
+    self.map(x => x.toArray.sum / x.size)
+  }
+
+  def rowNorm2(): RDD[Double] = {
+    self.map(x => math.sqrt(x.toArray.map(x => x*x).sum))
+  }
+
+  def rowSDs(): RDD[Double] = {
+    val means = self.rowMeans()
+    self.zip(means)
+      .map{ case(x, m) => x.toBreeze - m }
+      .map{ x => math.sqrt(x.toArray.map(x => x*x).sum / x.size) }
+  }
+
+  def colMeansOption(): Vector = {
+    ???
+  }
+
+  def colNorm2Option(): Vector = {
+    ???
+  }
+
+  def colSDsOption(): Vector = {
+    ???
+  }
+
+  def colMeans(): Vector = {
+    Vectors.fromBreeze(self.map(_.toBreeze).zipWithIndex().fold((BV.zeros(1), 0L)) {
+      case ((lhsVec, lhsCnt), (rhsVec, rhsCnt)) =>
+        val totalNow: BV[Double] = lhsVec :* lhsCnt.asInstanceOf[Double]
+        val totalNew: BV[Double] = (totalNow + rhsVec) :/ rhsCnt.asInstanceOf[Double]
+        (totalNew, rhsCnt)
+    }._1)
+  }
+
+  def colNorm2(): Vector = Vectors.fromBreeze(
+    breezeVector = self.map(_.toBreeze).fold(BV.zeros(1)) {
+      case (lhs, rhs) => lhs + rhs :* rhs
+  }.map(math.sqrt))
+
+  def colSDs(): Vector = {
+    val means = this.colMeans()
+    Vectors.fromBreeze(
+      breezeVector = self.map(x => x.toBreeze - means.toBreeze)
+        .zipWithIndex()
+        .fold((BV.zeros(1), 0L)) {
+          case ((lhsVec, lhsCnt), (rhsVec, rhsCnt)) =>
+            val totalNow: BV[Double] = lhsVec :* lhsCnt.asInstanceOf[Double]
+            val totalNew: BV[Double] = (totalNow + rhsVec :* rhsVec) :/ rhsCnt.asInstanceOf[Double]
+            (totalNew, rhsCnt)
+    }._1.map(math.sqrt))
+  }
+
+  private def maxMinOption(cmp: (Vector, Vector) => Boolean): Option[Vector] = {
+    def cmpMaxMin(x1: Vector, x2: Vector) = if (cmp(x1, x2)) x1 else x2
+    self.mapPartitions { iterator =>
+      Seq(iterator.reduceOption(cmpMaxMin)).iterator
+    }.collect { case Some(x) => x }.collect().reduceOption(cmpMaxMin)
+  }
+
+  def maxOption(cmp: (Vector, Vector) => Boolean) = maxMinOption(cmp)
+
+  def minOption(cmp: (Vector, Vector) => Boolean) = maxMinOption(!cmp(_, _))
+
+  def rowShrink(): RDD[Vector] = {
+    ???
+  }
+
+  def colShrink(): RDD[Vector] = {
+    ???
+  }
+}
diff --git a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/util/MLUtils.scala b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/util/MLUtils.scala
index ac2360c429e2b..2bc3ab97ca2fc 100644
--- a/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/util/MLUtils.scala
+++ b/mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/util/MLUtils.scala
@@ -265,4 +265,5 @@ object MLUtils {
     }
     sqDist
   }
+  implicit def rddToVectorRDDFunctions(rdd: RDD[Vector]) = new VectorRDDFunctions(rdd)
 }
diff --git a/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/rdd/VectorRDDFunctionsSuite.scala b/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/rdd/VectorRDDFunctionsSuite.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..465da3e1a2581
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mllib/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/mllib/rdd/VectorRDDFunctionsSuite.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.spark.mllib.rdd
+
+import org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.Vector
+import org.scalatest.FunSuite
+
+import org.apache.spark.mllib.linalg.Vectors
+import org.apache.spark.mllib.util.MLUtils._
+import VectorRDDFunctionsSuite._
+import org.apache.spark.mllib.util.LocalSparkContext
+
+class VectorRDDFunctionsSuite extends FunSuite with LocalSparkContext {
+
+  val localData = Array(
+      Vectors.dense(1.0, 2.0, 3.0),
+      Vectors.dense(4.0, 5.0, 6.0),
+      Vectors.dense(7.0, 8.0, 9.0)
+    )
+
+  val rowMeans = Array(2.0, 5.0, 8.0)
+  val rowNorm2 = Array(math.sqrt(14.0), math.sqrt(77.0), math.sqrt(194.0))
+  val rowSDs = Array(math.sqrt(2.0 / 3.0), math.sqrt(2.0 / 3.0), math.sqrt(2.0 / 3.0))
+
+  val colMeans = Array(4.0, 5.0, 6.0)
+  val colNorm2 = Array(math.sqrt(66.0), math.sqrt(93.0), math.sqrt(126.0))
+  val colSDs = Array(math.sqrt(6.0), math.sqrt(6.0), math.sqrt(6.0))
+
+  val maxVec = Array(7.0, 8.0, 9.0)
+  val minVec = Array(1.0, 2.0, 3.0)
+
+  test("rowMeans") {
+    val data = sc.parallelize(localData)
+    assert(equivVector(Vectors.dense(data.rowMeans().collect()), Vectors.dense(rowMeans)), "Row means do not match.")
+  }
+
+  test("rowNorm2") {
+    val data = sc.parallelize(localData)
+    assert(equivVector(Vectors.dense(data.rowNorm2().collect()), Vectors.dense(rowNorm2)), "Row norm2s do not match.")
+  }
+
+  test("rowSDs") {
+    val data = sc.parallelize(localData)
+    assert(equivVector(Vectors.dense(data.rowSDs().collect()), Vectors.dense(rowSDs)), "Row SDs do not match.")
+  }
+
+  test("colMeans") {
+    val data = sc.parallelize(localData)
+    assert(equivVector(data.colMeans(), Vectors.dense(colMeans)), "Column means do not match.")
+  }
+
+  test("colNorm2") {
+    val data = sc.parallelize(localData)
+    assert(equivVector(data.colNorm2(), Vectors.dense(colNorm2)), "Column norm2s do not match.")
+  }
+
+  test("colSDs") {
+    val data = sc.parallelize(localData)
+    assert(equivVector(data.colSDs(), Vectors.dense(colSDs)), "Column SDs do not match.")
+  }
+
+  test("maxOption") {
+    val data = sc.parallelize(localData)
+    assert(equivVectorOption(
+      data.maxOption((lhs: Vector, rhs: Vector) => lhs.toBreeze.norm(2) >= rhs.toBreeze.norm(2)),
+      Some(Vectors.dense(maxVec))),
+      "Optional maximum does not match."
+    )
+  }
+
+  test("minOption") {
+    val data = sc.parallelize(localData)
+    assert(equivVectorOption(
+      data.minOption((lhs: Vector, rhs: Vector) => lhs.toBreeze.norm(2) >= rhs.toBreeze.norm(2)),
+      Some(Vectors.dense(minVec))),
+      "Optional minimum does not match."
+    )
+  }
+}
+
+object VectorRDDFunctionsSuite {
+  def equivVector(lhs: Vector, rhs: Vector): Boolean = {
+    (lhs.toBreeze - rhs.toBreeze).norm(2) < 1e-9
+  }
+
+  def equivVectorOption(lhs: Option[Vector], rhs: Option[Vector]): Boolean = {
+    (lhs, rhs) match {
+      case (Some(a), Some(b)) => (a.toBreeze - a.toBreeze).norm(2) < 1e-9
+      case (None, None) => true
+      case _ => false
+    }
+  }
+}
+