diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/CatalogProperties.java b/core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/CatalogProperties.java
index 66e46005c8ee..ff3f7a1a142f 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/CatalogProperties.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/CatalogProperties.java
@@ -55,4 +55,7 @@ private CatalogProperties() {
 
   public static final String LOCK_TABLE = "lock.table";
 
+  public static final String CATALOG_CACHE_ENABLED = "cache-enabled";
+  public static final String CATALOG_CACHE_ENABLED_DEFAULT = "false";
+
 }
diff --git a/site/docs/configuration.md b/site/docs/configuration.md
index afa02deb863c..be9deb2de85a 100644
--- a/site/docs/configuration.md
+++ b/site/docs/configuration.md
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Iceberg catalogs support using catalog properties to configure catalog behaviors
 | warehouse                         | null               | the root path of the data warehouse                    |
 | uri                               | null               | a URI string, such as Hive metastore URI               |
 | clients                           | 2                  | client pool size                                       |
-
+| cache-enabled                     | false              | cache catalog, only works for Spark                    | 
 `HadoopCatalog` and `HiveCatalog` can access the properties in their constructors.
 Any other custom catalog can access the properties by implementing `Catalog.initialize(catalogName, catalogProperties)`.
 The properties can be manually constructed or passed in from a compute engine like Spark or Flink.
diff --git a/spark3/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/SparkCatalog.java b/spark3/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/SparkCatalog.java
index b4c92b408738..0543f5dc357e 100644
--- a/spark3/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/SparkCatalog.java
+++ b/spark3/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/spark/SparkCatalog.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 import java.util.TreeMap;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.iceberg.CachingCatalog;
+import org.apache.iceberg.CatalogProperties;
 import org.apache.iceberg.CatalogUtil;
 import org.apache.iceberg.Schema;
 import org.apache.iceberg.Table;
@@ -379,7 +380,8 @@ public boolean dropNamespace(String[] namespace) throws NoSuchNamespaceException
 
   @Override
   public final void initialize(String name, CaseInsensitiveStringMap options) {
-    this.cacheEnabled = Boolean.parseBoolean(options.getOrDefault("cache-enabled", "true"));
+    this.cacheEnabled = Boolean.parseBoolean(options.getOrDefault(CatalogProperties.CATALOG_CACHE_ENABLED,
+        CatalogProperties.CATALOG_CACHE_ENABLED_DEFAULT));
     Catalog catalog = buildIcebergCatalog(name, options);
 
     this.catalogName = name;