diff --git a/docs/layouts/shortcodes/generated/orc_configuration.html b/docs/layouts/shortcodes/generated/orc_configuration.html
index 92b1a9106754..ffdae855e2fa 100644
--- a/docs/layouts/shortcodes/generated/orc_configuration.html
+++ b/docs/layouts/shortcodes/generated/orc_configuration.html
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
         </tr>
         <tr>
             <td><h5>orc.compression.zstd.level</h5></td>
-            <td style="word-wrap: break-word;">1</td>
+            <td style="word-wrap: break-word;">3</td>
             <td>Integer</td>
             <td>Define the compression level to use with ZStandard codec while writing data. The valid range is 1~22.</td>
         </tr>
diff --git a/paimon-format/src/main/java/org/apache/orc/OrcConf.java b/paimon-format/src/main/java/org/apache/orc/OrcConf.java
index 6aa357868f17..a7fa1a21bc8c 100644
--- a/paimon-format/src/main/java/org/apache/orc/OrcConf.java
+++ b/paimon-format/src/main/java/org/apache/orc/OrcConf.java
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ public enum OrcConf {
     COMPRESSION_ZSTD_LEVEL(
             "orc.compression.zstd.level",
             "hive.exec.orc.compression.zstd.level",
-            1,
+            3,
             "Define the compression level to use with ZStandard codec "
                     + "while writing data. The valid range is 1~22"),
     COMPRESSION_ZSTD_WINDOWLOG(
diff --git a/paimon-format/src/test/java/org/apache/paimon/format/orc/writer/OrcZstdTest.java b/paimon-format/src/test/java/org/apache/paimon/format/orc/writer/OrcZstdTest.java
index d5f8f8bc7cc7..0bf90b38a4a7 100644
--- a/paimon-format/src/test/java/org/apache/paimon/format/orc/writer/OrcZstdTest.java
+++ b/paimon-format/src/test/java/org/apache/paimon/format/orc/writer/OrcZstdTest.java
@@ -145,12 +145,10 @@ public void testZstdDirectDecompress() {
         try (ZstdCodec zstdCodec = new ZstdCodec()) {
             // write bytes to heap buffer.
             assertTrue(zstdCodec.compress(in, out, null, zstdCodec.getDefaultOptions()));
-            int position = out.position();
             out.flip();
             // copy heap buffer to direct buffer.
-            directOut.put(out.array());
+            directOut.put(out);
             directOut.flip();
-            directOut.limit(position);
 
             zstdCodec.decompress(directOut, directResult);