diff --git a/benchmarks/src/bin/dfbench.rs b/benchmarks/src/bin/dfbench.rs
index 441b6cdc0293..9ce6848a063a 100644
--- a/benchmarks/src/bin/dfbench.rs
+++ b/benchmarks/src/bin/dfbench.rs
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ use datafusion::error::Result;
 
 use structopt::StructOpt;
 
+#[cfg(all(feature = "snmalloc", feature = "mimalloc"))]
+compile_error!(
+    "feature \"snmalloc\" and feature \"mimalloc\" cannot be enabled at the same time"
+);
+
 #[cfg(feature = "snmalloc")]
 #[global_allocator]
 static ALLOC: snmalloc_rs::SnMalloc = snmalloc_rs::SnMalloc;
diff --git a/benchmarks/src/bin/tpch.rs b/benchmarks/src/bin/tpch.rs
index fc0f4ca0613c..3270b082cfb4 100644
--- a/benchmarks/src/bin/tpch.rs
+++ b/benchmarks/src/bin/tpch.rs
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ use datafusion::error::Result;
 use datafusion_benchmarks::tpch;
 use structopt::StructOpt;
 
+#[cfg(all(feature = "snmalloc", feature = "mimalloc"))]
+compile_error!(
+    "feature \"snmalloc\" and feature \"mimalloc\" cannot be enabled at the same time"
+);
+
 #[cfg(feature = "snmalloc")]
 #[global_allocator]
 static ALLOC: snmalloc_rs::SnMalloc = snmalloc_rs::SnMalloc;