diff --git a/cpp/velox/CMakeLists.txt b/cpp/velox/CMakeLists.txt
index 1ea9b38386a4..33aea2552a4b 100644
--- a/cpp/velox/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/cpp/velox/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ set(VELOX_SRCS
     memory/VeloxMemoryManager.cc
     operators/functions/RegistrationAllFunctions.cc
     operators/functions/RowConstructorWithNull.cc
+    operators/functions/SparkTokenizer.cc
     operators/serializer/VeloxColumnarToRowConverter.cc
     operators/serializer/VeloxColumnarBatchSerializer.cc
     operators/serializer/VeloxRowToColumnarConverter.cc
diff --git a/cpp/velox/compute/VeloxBackend.cc b/cpp/velox/compute/VeloxBackend.cc
index e69155356010..6bc2aeaabae4 100644
--- a/cpp/velox/compute/VeloxBackend.cc
+++ b/cpp/velox/compute/VeloxBackend.cc
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #endif
 #include "config/GlutenConfig.h"
 #include "jni/JniFileSystem.h"
+#include "operators/functions/SparkTokenizer.h"
 #include "udf/UdfLoader.h"
 #include "utils/ConfigExtractor.h"
 #include "utils/exception.h"
@@ -270,6 +271,7 @@ void VeloxBackend::init(const std::unordered_map<std::string, std::string>& conf
   if (veloxcfg->get<bool>(kDebugModeEnabled, false)) {
     LOG(INFO) << "VeloxBackend config:" << printConfig(veloxcfg->valuesCopy());
   }
+  registerSparkTokenizer();
 }
 
 facebook::velox::cache::AsyncDataCache* VeloxBackend::getAsyncDataCache() const {
diff --git a/cpp/velox/operators/functions/SparkTokenizer.cc b/cpp/velox/operators/functions/SparkTokenizer.cc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..952abc0c6e9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cpp/velox/operators/functions/SparkTokenizer.cc
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+/*
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+#include "operators/functions/SparkTokenizer.h"
+#include "velox/type/Tokenizer.h"
+
+namespace gluten {
+namespace {
+
+class SparkTokenizer : public facebook::velox::common::Tokenizer {
+ public:
+  explicit SparkTokenizer(const std::string& path) : path_(path) {
+    state_ = State::kNotReady;
+  }
+
+  bool hasNext() override {
+    if (state_ == State::kDone) {
+      return false;
+    } else if (state_ == State::kNotReady) {
+      return true;
+    }
+    VELOX_FAIL("Illegal state.");
+  }
+
+  std::unique_ptr<facebook::velox::common::Subfield::PathElement> next() override {
+    if (!hasNext()) {
+      VELOX_USER_FAIL("No more tokens.");
+    }
+    state_ = State::kDone;
+    return std::make_unique<facebook::velox::common::Subfield::NestedField>(path_);
+  }
+
+ private:
+  const std::string path_;
+  State state_;
+};
+} // namespace
+
+void registerSparkTokenizer() {
+  facebook::velox::common::Tokenizer::registerInstanceFactory(
+      [](const std::string& p) { return std::make_unique<SparkTokenizer>(p); });
+}
+
+} // namespace gluten
diff --git a/cpp/velox/operators/functions/SparkTokenizer.h b/cpp/velox/operators/functions/SparkTokenizer.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9ed267f47898
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cpp/velox/operators/functions/SparkTokenizer.h
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+/*
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+namespace gluten {
+
+void registerSparkTokenizer();
+
+} // namespace gluten
diff --git a/cpp/velox/substrait/SubstraitToVeloxPlanValidator.cc b/cpp/velox/substrait/SubstraitToVeloxPlanValidator.cc
index e5a45951a6bd..939985e1ca57 100644
--- a/cpp/velox/substrait/SubstraitToVeloxPlanValidator.cc
+++ b/cpp/velox/substrait/SubstraitToVeloxPlanValidator.cc
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
 #include "velox/exec/Aggregate.h"
 #include "velox/expression/Expr.h"
 #include "velox/expression/SignatureBinder.h"
-#include "velox/type/Tokenizer.h"
 
 namespace gluten {
 
@@ -62,7 +61,6 @@ bool validateColNames(const ::substrait::NamedStruct& schema) {
   };
 
   for (const auto& name : schema.names()) {
-    common::Tokenizer token(name, common::Separators::get());
     for (auto i = 0; i < name.size(); i++) {
       auto c = name[i];
       if (!isUnquotedPathCharacter(c)) {