diff --git a/iotdb-core/datanode/src/main/java/org/apache/iotdb/db/conf/IoTDBConfig.java b/iotdb-core/datanode/src/main/java/org/apache/iotdb/db/conf/IoTDBConfig.java
index 9e4ddf3737bbc..ee0f6601bf2eb 100644
--- a/iotdb-core/datanode/src/main/java/org/apache/iotdb/db/conf/IoTDBConfig.java
+++ b/iotdb-core/datanode/src/main/java/org/apache/iotdb/db/conf/IoTDBConfig.java
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 import org.apache.tsfile.common.conf.TSFileDescriptor;
 import org.apache.tsfile.common.constant.TsFileConstant;
 import org.apache.tsfile.enums.TSDataType;
+import org.apache.tsfile.file.metadata.enums.CompressionType;
 import org.apache.tsfile.file.metadata.enums.TSEncoding;
 import org.apache.tsfile.fileSystem.FSType;
 import org.apache.tsfile.utils.FSUtils;
@@ -1122,6 +1123,8 @@ public class IoTDBConfig {
    */
   private String RateLimiterType = "FixedIntervalRateLimiter";
 
+  private CompressionType WALCompressionAlgorithm = CompressionType.UNCOMPRESSED;
+
   IoTDBConfig() {}
 
   public int getMaxLogEntriesNumPerBatch() {
@@ -3906,11 +3909,11 @@ public void setInnerCompactionTaskSelectionDiskRedundancy(
     this.innerCompactionTaskSelectionDiskRedundancy = innerCompactionTaskSelectionDiskRedundancy;
   }
 
-  public boolean isEnableWALCompression() {
-    return enableWALCompression;
+  public CompressionType getWALCompressionAlgorithm() {
+    return WALCompressionAlgorithm;
   }
 
-  public void setEnableWALCompression(boolean enableWALCompression) {
-    this.enableWALCompression = enableWALCompression;
+  public void setWALCompressionAlgorithm(CompressionType WALCompressionAlgorithm) {
+    this.WALCompressionAlgorithm = WALCompressionAlgorithm;
   }
 }
diff --git a/iotdb-core/datanode/src/main/java/org/apache/iotdb/db/conf/IoTDBDescriptor.java b/iotdb-core/datanode/src/main/java/org/apache/iotdb/db/conf/IoTDBDescriptor.java
index ce14a5e4cfd5d..4256e8bcc6f61 100644
--- a/iotdb-core/datanode/src/main/java/org/apache/iotdb/db/conf/IoTDBDescriptor.java
+++ b/iotdb-core/datanode/src/main/java/org/apache/iotdb/db/conf/IoTDBDescriptor.java
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@
 
 import org.apache.tsfile.common.conf.TSFileDescriptor;
 import org.apache.tsfile.enums.TSDataType;
+import org.apache.tsfile.file.metadata.enums.CompressionType;
 import org.apache.tsfile.file.metadata.enums.TSEncoding;
 import org.apache.tsfile.fileSystem.FSType;
 import org.apache.tsfile.utils.FilePathUtils;
@@ -429,10 +430,10 @@ public void loadProperties(Properties properties) throws BadNodeUrlException, IO
                 "io_task_queue_size_for_flushing",
                 Integer.toString(conf.getIoTaskQueueSizeForFlushing()))));
 
-    conf.setEnableWALCompression(
-        Boolean.parseBoolean(
+    conf.setWALCompressionAlgorithm(
+        CompressionType.valueOf(
             properties.getProperty(
-                "enable_wal_compression", Boolean.toString(conf.isEnableWALCompression()))));
+                "wal_compression_algorithm", conf.getWALCompressionAlgorithm().toString())));
 
     conf.setCompactionScheduleIntervalInMs(
         Long.parseLong(
diff --git a/iotdb-core/datanode/src/main/java/org/apache/iotdb/db/storageengine/dataregion/wal/io/LogWriter.java b/iotdb-core/datanode/src/main/java/org/apache/iotdb/db/storageengine/dataregion/wal/io/LogWriter.java
index 44ef2f4e1965d..ab7e11e911f45 100644
--- a/iotdb-core/datanode/src/main/java/org/apache/iotdb/db/storageengine/dataregion/wal/io/LogWriter.java
+++ b/iotdb-core/datanode/src/main/java/org/apache/iotdb/db/storageengine/dataregion/wal/io/LogWriter.java
@@ -49,8 +49,9 @@ public abstract class LogWriter implements ILogWriter {
   protected long size;
   protected boolean isEndFile = false;
   private final ByteBuffer headerBuffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(Integer.BYTES * 2 + 1);
-  private static final CompressionType compressionType = CompressionType.GZIP;
-  private final ICompressor compressor = ICompressor.getCompressor(CompressionType.GZIP);
+  private static final CompressionType compressionAlg =
+      IoTDBDescriptor.getInstance().getConfig().getWALCompressionAlgorithm();
+  private final ICompressor compressor = ICompressor.getCompressor(compressionAlg);
   private final ByteBuffer compressedByteBuffer;
   private static final long MIN_COMPRESS_SIZE = 1024 * 512;
 
@@ -58,7 +59,7 @@ protected LogWriter(File logFile) throws FileNotFoundException {
     this.logFile = logFile;
     this.logStream = new FileOutputStream(logFile, true);
     this.logChannel = this.logStream.getChannel();
-    if (IoTDBDescriptor.getInstance().getConfig().isEnableWALCompression()) {
+    if (compressionAlg != CompressionType.UNCOMPRESSED) {
       compressedByteBuffer =
           ByteBuffer.allocate(
               compressor.getMaxBytesForCompression(
@@ -75,7 +76,7 @@ public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) throws IOException {
     boolean compressed = false;
     int uncompressedSize = bufferSize;
     if (!isEndFile
-        && IoTDBDescriptor.getInstance().getConfig().isEnableWALCompression()
+        && compressionAlg != CompressionType.UNCOMPRESSED
         && bufferSize > MIN_COMPRESS_SIZE /* Do not compress buffer that is less than 512KB */) {
       compressedByteBuffer.clear();
       compressor.compress(buffer, compressedByteBuffer);
@@ -91,7 +92,7 @@ public void write(ByteBuffer buffer) throws IOException {
     */
     headerBuffer.clear();
     headerBuffer.put(
-        compressed ? compressionType.serialize() : CompressionType.UNCOMPRESSED.serialize());
+        compressed ? compressionAlg.serialize() : CompressionType.UNCOMPRESSED.serialize());
     headerBuffer.putInt(bufferSize);
     if (compressed) {
       headerBuffer.putInt(uncompressedSize);
diff --git a/iotdb-core/node-commons/src/assembly/resources/conf/iotdb-common.properties b/iotdb-core/node-commons/src/assembly/resources/conf/iotdb-common.properties
index 400b58b6188e8..9711e5049f5ae 100644
--- a/iotdb-core/node-commons/src/assembly/resources/conf/iotdb-common.properties
+++ b/iotdb-core/node-commons/src/assembly/resources/conf/iotdb-common.properties
@@ -773,6 +773,10 @@ data_replication_factor=1
 # Datatype: long
 # iot_consensus_cache_window_time_in_ms=-1
 
+# WAL compression algorithm
+# options: UNCOMPRESSED, SNAPPY, LZ4, GZIP, ZSTD
+# wal_compress_algorithm=UNCOMPRESSED
+
 ####################
 ### IoTConsensus Configuration
 ####################