diff --git a/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/FeaturesConfig.java b/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/FeaturesConfig.java
index 4e32436a250e..ca3dba9d02ef 100644
--- a/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/FeaturesConfig.java
+++ b/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/FeaturesConfig.java
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ public class FeaturesConfig
     /**
      * default value is overwritten for fault tolerant execution in {@link #applyFaultTolerantExecutionDefaults()}}
      */
-    private CompressionCodec exchangeCompressionCodec = NONE;
+    private CompressionCodec exchangeCompressionCodec = LZ4;
     private boolean pagesIndexEagerCompactionEnabled;
     private boolean omitDateTimeTypePrecision;
     private int maxRecursionDepth = 10;
diff --git a/core/trino-main/src/test/java/io/trino/sql/analyzer/TestFeaturesConfig.java b/core/trino-main/src/test/java/io/trino/sql/analyzer/TestFeaturesConfig.java
index b385ed3fb411..1666e6a7a643 100644
--- a/core/trino-main/src/test/java/io/trino/sql/analyzer/TestFeaturesConfig.java
+++ b/core/trino-main/src/test/java/io/trino/sql/analyzer/TestFeaturesConfig.java
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 import static io.airlift.units.DataSize.Unit.GIGABYTE;
 import static io.airlift.units.DataSize.Unit.KILOBYTE;
 import static io.airlift.units.DataSize.Unit.MEGABYTE;
+import static io.trino.execution.buffer.CompressionCodec.LZ4;
 import static io.trino.execution.buffer.CompressionCodec.NONE;
 import static io.trino.execution.buffer.CompressionCodec.ZSTD;
 import static io.trino.sql.analyzer.RegexLibrary.JONI;
@@ -53,7 +54,7 @@ public void testDefaults()
                 .setSpillMaxUsedSpaceThreshold(0.9)
                 .setMemoryRevokingThreshold(0.9)
                 .setMemoryRevokingTarget(0.5)
-                .setExchangeCompressionCodec(NONE)
+                .setExchangeCompressionCodec(LZ4)
                 .setExchangeDataIntegrityVerification(DataIntegrityVerification.ABORT)
                 .setPagesIndexEagerCompactionEnabled(false)
                 .setFilterAndProjectMinOutputPageSize(DataSize.of(500, KILOBYTE))