diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/results/api/cluster_state_1/cluster_state_1.1.regexadm b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/results/api/cluster_state_1/cluster_state_1.1.regexadm
index 28b0c0e..a23829f 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/results/api/cluster_state_1/cluster_state_1.1.regexadm
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/results/api/cluster_state_1/cluster_state_1.1.regexadm
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
     "storage.max.active.writable.datasets" : 8,
     "txn\.commitprofiler\.enabled" : false,
     "txn\.commitprofiler\.reportinterval" : 5,
-    "txn\.dataset\.checkpoint\.interval" : 600,
+    "txn\.dataset\.checkpoint\.interval" : 3600,
     "txn\.job\.recovery\.memorysize" : 67108864,
     "txn\.lock\.escalationthreshold" : 1000,
     "txn\.lock\.shrinktimer" : 5000,
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/results/api/cluster_state_1_full/cluster_state_1_full.1.regexadm b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/results/api/cluster_state_1_full/cluster_state_1_full.1.regexadm
index 0b9194f6..48e92b0 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/results/api/cluster_state_1_full/cluster_state_1_full.1.regexadm
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/results/api/cluster_state_1_full/cluster_state_1_full.1.regexadm
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
     "storage.max.active.writable.datasets" : 8,
     "txn\.commitprofiler\.enabled" : false,
     "txn\.commitprofiler\.reportinterval" : 5,
-    "txn\.dataset\.checkpoint\.interval" : 600,
+    "txn\.dataset\.checkpoint\.interval" : 3600,
     "txn\.job\.recovery\.memorysize" : 67108864,
     "txn\.lock\.escalationthreshold" : 1000,
     "txn\.lock\.shrinktimer" : 5000,
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/results/api/cluster_state_1_less/cluster_state_1_less.1.regexadm b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/results/api/cluster_state_1_less/cluster_state_1_less.1.regexadm
index 9f1cbb0..b631b8c 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/results/api/cluster_state_1_less/cluster_state_1_less.1.regexadm
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-app/src/test/resources/runtimets/results/api/cluster_state_1_less/cluster_state_1_less.1.regexadm
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
     "storage.max.active.writable.datasets" : 8,
     "txn\.commitprofiler\.enabled" : false,
     "txn\.commitprofiler\.reportinterval" : 5,
-    "txn\.dataset\.checkpoint\.interval" : 600,
+    "txn\.dataset\.checkpoint\.interval" : 3600,
     "txn\.job\.recovery\.memorysize" : 67108864,
     "txn\.lock\.escalationthreshold" : 1000,
     "txn\.lock\.shrinktimer" : 5000,
diff --git a/asterixdb/asterix-common/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/common/config/TransactionProperties.java b/asterixdb/asterix-common/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/common/config/TransactionProperties.java
index 0477147..5ed069c 100644
--- a/asterixdb/asterix-common/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/common/config/TransactionProperties.java
+++ b/asterixdb/asterix-common/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/common/config/TransactionProperties.java
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     public enum Option implements IOption {
         TXN_DATASET_CHECKPOINT_INTERVAL(
                 POSITIVE_INTEGER,
-                (int) TimeUnit.MINUTES.toSeconds(10),
+                (int) TimeUnit.MINUTES.toSeconds(60),
                 "The interval (in seconds) after which a dataset is considered idle and persisted to disk"),
         TXN_LOG_BUFFER_NUMPAGES(POSITIVE_INTEGER, 8, "The number of pages in the transaction log tail"),
         TXN_LOG_BUFFER_PAGESIZE(