diff --git a/paimon-format/src/main/java/org/apache/paimon/format/parquet/writer/RowDataParquetBuilder.java b/paimon-format/src/main/java/org/apache/paimon/format/parquet/writer/RowDataParquetBuilder.java
index 5e2f8550f3e6..26d38a1c1863 100644
--- a/paimon-format/src/main/java/org/apache/paimon/format/parquet/writer/RowDataParquetBuilder.java
+++ b/paimon-format/src/main/java/org/apache/paimon/format/parquet/writer/RowDataParquetBuilder.java
@@ -76,9 +76,6 @@ public ParquetWriter<InternalRow> createWriter(OutputFile out, String compressio
     }
 
     public String getCompression(String compression) {
-        if (conf.get("parquet.compression") != null) {
-            return conf.get("parquet.compression");
-        }
-        return compression;
+        return conf.get("parquet.compression", compression);
     }
 }