diff --git a/examples/hadoop_word_count/src/WordCount.java b/examples/hadoop_word_count/src/WordCount.java
index 96bcb1be27..a0ad913cdc 100644
--- a/examples/hadoop_word_count/src/WordCount.java
+++ b/examples/hadoop_word_count/src/WordCount.java
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ public class WordCount extends Configured implements Tool
 
             ConfigHelper.setInputRpcPort(job.getConfiguration(), "9160");
             ConfigHelper.setInputInitialAddress(job.getConfiguration(), "localhost");
-            ConfigHelper.setInputPartitioner(job.getConfiguration(), "RandomPartitioner");
+            ConfigHelper.setInputPartitioner(job.getConfiguration(), "Murmur3Partitioner");
             ConfigHelper.setInputColumnFamily(job.getConfiguration(), KEYSPACE, COLUMN_FAMILY);
             SlicePredicate predicate = new SlicePredicate().setColumn_names(Arrays.asList(ByteBufferUtil.bytes(columnName)));
             ConfigHelper.setInputSlicePredicate(job.getConfiguration(), predicate);
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ public class WordCount extends Configured implements Tool
             }
 
             ConfigHelper.setOutputInitialAddress(job.getConfiguration(), "localhost");
-            ConfigHelper.setOutputPartitioner(job.getConfiguration(), "RandomPartitioner");
+            ConfigHelper.setOutputPartitioner(job.getConfiguration(), "Murmur3Partitioner");
 
             job.waitForCompletion(true);
         }
diff --git a/examples/hadoop_word_count/src/WordCountCounters.java b/examples/hadoop_word_count/src/WordCountCounters.java
index 2d843df1a3..e5a2460523 100644
--- a/examples/hadoop_word_count/src/WordCountCounters.java
+++ b/examples/hadoop_word_count/src/WordCountCounters.java
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ public class WordCountCounters extends Configured implements Tool
 
         ConfigHelper.setInputRpcPort(job.getConfiguration(), "9160");
         ConfigHelper.setInputInitialAddress(job.getConfiguration(), "localhost");
-        ConfigHelper.setInputPartitioner(job.getConfiguration(), "org.apache.cassandra.dht.RandomPartitioner");
+        ConfigHelper.setInputPartitioner(job.getConfiguration(), "org.apache.cassandra.dht.Murmur3Partitioner");
         ConfigHelper.setInputColumnFamily(job.getConfiguration(), WordCount.KEYSPACE, WordCountCounters.COUNTER_COLUMN_FAMILY);
         SlicePredicate predicate = new SlicePredicate().setSlice_range(
                                                                         new SliceRange().