diff --git a/presto-main/src/main/java/com/facebook/presto/SystemSessionProperties.java b/presto-main/src/main/java/com/facebook/presto/SystemSessionProperties.java
index 5562ff6a9778..bdc3bdf7486a 100644
--- a/presto-main/src/main/java/com/facebook/presto/SystemSessionProperties.java
+++ b/presto-main/src/main/java/com/facebook/presto/SystemSessionProperties.java
@@ -1617,7 +1617,7 @@ public SystemSessionProperties(
                         NATIVE_SPILL_COMPRESSION_CODEC,
                         "Native Execution only. The compression algorithm type to compress the spilled data.\n " +
                                 "Supported compression codecs are: ZLIB, SNAPPY, LZO, ZSTD, LZ4 and GZIP. NONE means no compression.",
-                        "snappy",
+                        "zstd",
                         false),
                 longProperty(
                         NATIVE_SPILL_WRITE_BUFFER_SIZE,