diff --git a/paimon-flink/paimon-flink-common/src/main/java/org/apache/paimon/flink/FlinkGenericCatalogFactory.java b/paimon-flink/paimon-flink-common/src/main/java/org/apache/paimon/flink/FlinkGenericCatalogFactory.java
index dc2a0f06b648..c298807b250d 100644
--- a/paimon-flink/paimon-flink-common/src/main/java/org/apache/paimon/flink/FlinkGenericCatalogFactory.java
+++ b/paimon-flink/paimon-flink-common/src/main/java/org/apache/paimon/flink/FlinkGenericCatalogFactory.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 import org.apache.paimon.annotation.VisibleForTesting;
 import org.apache.paimon.catalog.CatalogContext;
+import org.apache.paimon.hive.HiveCatalogOptions;
 import org.apache.paimon.options.CatalogOptions;
 import org.apache.paimon.options.Options;
 
@@ -89,6 +90,7 @@ public static FlinkGenericCatalog createCatalog(
             ClassLoader cl, Map<String, String> optionMap, String name, Catalog flinkCatalog) {
         Options options = Options.fromMap(optionMap);
         options.set(CatalogOptions.METASTORE, "hive");
+        options.set(HiveCatalogOptions.FORMAT_TABLE_ENABLED, false);
         FlinkCatalog paimon =
                 new FlinkCatalog(
                         org.apache.paimon.catalog.CatalogFactory.createCatalog(
diff --git a/paimon-spark/paimon-spark-common/src/main/java/org/apache/paimon/spark/SparkGenericCatalog.java b/paimon-spark/paimon-spark-common/src/main/java/org/apache/paimon/spark/SparkGenericCatalog.java
index 12407f2614ff..2012ad780d79 100644
--- a/paimon-spark/paimon-spark-common/src/main/java/org/apache/paimon/spark/SparkGenericCatalog.java
+++ b/paimon-spark/paimon-spark-common/src/main/java/org/apache/paimon/spark/SparkGenericCatalog.java
@@ -317,6 +317,7 @@ private void fillCommonConfigurations(Map<String, String> options, SQLConf sqlCo
                 options.put(METASTORE.key(), metastore);
             }
         }
+        options.put(HiveCatalogOptions.FORMAT_TABLE_ENABLED.key(), "false");
         String sessionCatalogDefaultDatabase = SQLConfUtils.defaultDatabase(sqlConf);
         if (options.containsKey(DEFAULT_DATABASE.key())) {
             String userDefineDefaultDatabase = options.get(DEFAULT_DATABASE.key());