diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 5574c76987844ca4dc41e8097a2a41c9e6cd736a..228d02b61dff56b595c66258a5afe7152f213aa6 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 
 ### General Improvements
 * Added new status code kColumnFamilyDropped to distinguish between Column Family Dropped and DB Shutdown in progress.
+* Improve ColumnFamilyOptions validation when creating a new column family.
 
 ### Bug Fixes
 * Fix a bug in WAL replay of secondary instance by skipping write batches with older sequence numbers than the current last sequence number.
diff --git a/db/db_impl/db_impl.cc b/db/db_impl/db_impl.cc
index af39b5ca11d2ffb021c78d8a00a97d67ed142fd2..154e6dd2339c2bbd30b43dff7178c7fc5662b3f6 100644
--- a/db/db_impl/db_impl.cc
+++ b/db/db_impl/db_impl.cc
@@ -1944,13 +1944,9 @@ Status DBImpl::CreateColumnFamilyImpl(const ColumnFamilyOptions& cf_options,
   Status persist_options_status;
   *handle = nullptr;
 
-  s = CheckCompressionSupported(cf_options);
-  if (s.ok() && immutable_db_options_.allow_concurrent_memtable_write) {
-    s = CheckConcurrentWritesSupported(cf_options);
-  }
-  if (s.ok()) {
-    s = CheckCFPathsSupported(initial_db_options_, cf_options);
-  }
+  DBOptions db_options =
+      BuildDBOptions(immutable_db_options_, mutable_db_options_);
+  s = ColumnFamilyData::ValidateOptions(db_options, cf_options);
   if (s.ok()) {
     for (auto& cf_path : cf_options.cf_paths) {
       s = env_->CreateDirIfMissing(cf_path.path);
diff --git a/db/db_test.cc b/db/db_test.cc
index 3bac53f2f0a39f51d0b5729174bfaf2f892e4005..0204f4d9f62d8dcf29a2d2f7f4dffe570d30e8be 100644
--- a/db/db_test.cc
+++ b/db/db_test.cc
@@ -5978,6 +5978,19 @@ TEST_F(DBTest, FailWhenCompressionNotSupportedTest) {
   }
 }
 
+TEST_F(DBTest, CreateColumnFamilyShouldFailOnIncompatibleOptions) {
+  Options options = CurrentOptions();
+  options.max_open_files = 100;
+  Reopen(options);
+
+  ColumnFamilyOptions cf_options(options);
+  // ttl is only supported when max_open_files is -1.
+  cf_options.ttl = 3600;
+  ColumnFamilyHandle* handle;
+  ASSERT_NOK(db_->CreateColumnFamily(cf_options, "pikachu", &handle));
+  delete handle;
+}
+
 #ifndef ROCKSDB_LITE
 TEST_F(DBTest, RowCache) {
   Options options = CurrentOptions();