diff --git a/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/util/JsonUtil.java b/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/util/JsonUtil.java
index ac6bcacd267..0c8ae3a1b52 100644
--- a/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/util/JsonUtil.java
+++ b/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/util/JsonUtil.java
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.io.StringReader;
 import java.math.BigDecimal;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.HashMap;
@@ -105,6 +106,9 @@
 
 public final class JsonUtil
 {
+    // StringReader outperforms InputStreamReader for small inputs. Limit based on Jackson benchmarks {@link https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-benchmarks/pull/9}
+    private static final int STRING_READER_LENGTH_LIMIT = 8192;
+
     private JsonUtil() {}
 
     // This object mapper is constructed without .configure(ORDER_MAP_ENTRIES_BY_KEYS, true) because
@@ -123,6 +127,15 @@ public static JsonFactory createJsonFactory()
     public static JsonParser createJsonParser(JsonFactory factory, Slice json)
             throws IOException
     {
+        // Jackson tries to detect the character encoding automatically when using InputStream
+        // so we pass StringReader or an InputStreamReader instead.
+        // Despite the https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-core/pull/1081, the below performance optimization
+        // is still valid for small inputs.
+        if (json.length() < STRING_READER_LENGTH_LIMIT) {
+            // StringReader is more performant than InputStreamReader for small inputs
+            return factory.createParser(new StringReader(json.toStringUtf8()));
+        }
+
         return factory.createParser(new InputStreamReader(json.getInput(), UTF_8));
     }