diff --git a/datafusion/README.md b/datafusion/README.md
index b9c5b5d38..cc9157468 100644
--- a/datafusion/README.md
+++ b/datafusion/README.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ The benchmark should be completed in under an hour. On-demand pricing is $0.6 pe
 1. `cd ClickBench/datafusion`
 1. `vi benchmark.sh` and modify following line to target Datafusion version
     ```
-    git checkout 40.0.0
+    git checkout 43.0.0
     ```
 1. `bash benchmark.sh`
 
diff --git a/datafusion/benchmark.sh b/datafusion/benchmark.sh
index 38e1bbb03..759f6590c 100755
--- a/datafusion/benchmark.sh
+++ b/datafusion/benchmark.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ sudo yum install gcc -y
 # Install DataFusion main branch
 git clone https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion.git
 cd arrow-datafusion/datafusion-cli
-git checkout 40.0.0
+git checkout 43.0.0
 CARGO_PROFILE_RELEASE_LTO=true RUSTFLAGS="-C codegen-units=1" cargo build --release
 export PATH="`pwd`/target/release:$PATH"
 cd ../..
diff --git a/datafusion/create_partitioned.sql b/datafusion/create_partitioned.sql
index 17a8b5b4d..3b3330c1b 100644
--- a/datafusion/create_partitioned.sql
+++ b/datafusion/create_partitioned.sql
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE hits
 STORED AS PARQUET
-LOCATION 'partitioned';
+LOCATION 'partitioned'
+OPTIONS ('binary_as_string' 'true');
diff --git a/datafusion/create_single.sql b/datafusion/create_single.sql
index eedd4c038..19e623b07 100644
--- a/datafusion/create_single.sql
+++ b/datafusion/create_single.sql
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE hits
 STORED AS PARQUET
-LOCATION 'hits.parquet';
+LOCATION 'hits.parquet'
+OPTIONS ('binary_as_string' 'true');