diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/sparsehash/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/sparsehash/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1f9bbcbd18d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/sparsehash/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation {
+  name = "sparsehash-2.0.2";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = http://sparsehash.googlecode.com/files/sparsehash-2.0.2.tar.gz;
+    sha256 = "0z5qa1sbp6xx5qpdvrdjh185k5kj53sgb6h2qabw01sn2nkkkmif";
+  };
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    homepage = "http://code.google.com/p/sparsehash/";
+    description = "An extremely memory-efficient hash_map implementation";
+    platforms = platforms.all;
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index e8cac3b34e6..1e7a9ed7581 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -1830,6 +1830,8 @@ let
     inherit (pkgsi686Linux.xlibs) libX11;
   };
 
+  sparsehash = callPackage ../development/libraries/sparsehash { };
+
   stardict = callPackage ../applications/misc/stardict/stardict.nix {
     inherit (gnome) libgnomeui scrollkeeper;
   };