diff --git a/benchmarks/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/benchmark/vector/Int7uScorerBenchmark.java b/benchmarks/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/benchmark/vector/Int7uScorerBenchmark.java
index 9fc0b7dc199ac..7529e39522582 100644
--- a/benchmarks/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/benchmark/vector/Int7uScorerBenchmark.java
+++ b/benchmarks/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/benchmark/vector/Int7uScorerBenchmark.java
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.util.quantization.ScalarQuantizer;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.logging.LogConfigurator;
 import org.elasticsearch.core.IOUtils;
+import org.elasticsearch.logging.LogManager;
+import org.elasticsearch.logging.Logger;
 import org.elasticsearch.simdvec.VectorScorerFactory;
 import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Benchmark;
 import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.BenchmarkMode;
@@ -61,6 +63,10 @@ public class Int7uScorerBenchmark {
 
     static {
         LogConfigurator.configureESLogging(); // native access requires logging to be initialized
+        if (supportsHeapSegments() == false) {
+            final Logger LOG = LogManager.getLogger(Int7uScorerBenchmark.class);
+            LOG.warn("*Query targets cannot run on " + "JDK " + Runtime.version());
+        }
     }
 
     @Param({ "96", "768", "1024" })
@@ -129,15 +135,17 @@ public void setup() throws IOException {
         nativeSqrScorer = factory.getInt7SQVectorScorerSupplier(EUCLIDEAN, in, values, scoreCorrectionConstant).get().scorer();
         nativeSqrScorer.setScoringOrdinal(0);
 
-        // setup for getInt7SQVectorScorer / query vector scoring
-        float[] queryVec = new float[dims];
-        for (int i = 0; i < dims; i++) {
-            queryVec[i] = ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextFloat();
+        if (supportsHeapSegments()) {
+            // setup for getInt7SQVectorScorer / query vector scoring
+            float[] queryVec = new float[dims];
+            for (int i = 0; i < dims; i++) {
+                queryVec[i] = ThreadLocalRandom.current().nextFloat();
+            }
+            luceneDotScorerQuery = luceneScorer(values, VectorSimilarityFunction.DOT_PRODUCT, queryVec);
+            nativeDotScorerQuery = factory.getInt7SQVectorScorer(VectorSimilarityFunction.DOT_PRODUCT, values, queryVec).get();
+            luceneSqrScorerQuery = luceneScorer(values, VectorSimilarityFunction.EUCLIDEAN, queryVec);
+            nativeSqrScorerQuery = factory.getInt7SQVectorScorer(VectorSimilarityFunction.EUCLIDEAN, values, queryVec).get();
         }
-        luceneDotScorerQuery = luceneScorer(values, VectorSimilarityFunction.DOT_PRODUCT, queryVec);
-        nativeDotScorerQuery = factory.getInt7SQVectorScorer(VectorSimilarityFunction.DOT_PRODUCT, values, queryVec).get();
-        luceneSqrScorerQuery = luceneScorer(values, VectorSimilarityFunction.EUCLIDEAN, queryVec);
-        nativeSqrScorerQuery = factory.getInt7SQVectorScorer(VectorSimilarityFunction.EUCLIDEAN, values, queryVec).get();
     }
 
     @TearDown
@@ -208,6 +216,10 @@ public float squareDistanceNativeQuery() throws IOException {
         return nativeSqrScorerQuery.score(1);
     }
 
+    static boolean supportsHeapSegments() {
+        return Runtime.version().feature() >= 22;
+    }
+
     QuantizedByteVectorValues vectorValues(int dims, int size, IndexInput in, VectorSimilarityFunction sim) throws IOException {
         var sq = new ScalarQuantizer(0.1f, 0.9f, (byte) 7);
         var slice = in.slice("values", 0, in.length());
diff --git a/benchmarks/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/benchmark/vector/Int7uScorerBenchmarkTests.java b/benchmarks/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/benchmark/vector/Int7uScorerBenchmarkTests.java
index b8cf689783d1d..26a9a7bb9ed40 100644
--- a/benchmarks/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/benchmark/vector/Int7uScorerBenchmarkTests.java
+++ b/benchmarks/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/benchmark/vector/Int7uScorerBenchmarkTests.java
@@ -42,8 +42,10 @@ public void testDotProduct() throws Exception {
                 assertEquals(expected, bench.dotProductLucene(), delta);
                 assertEquals(expected, bench.dotProductNative(), delta);
 
-                expected = bench.dotProductLuceneQuery();
-                assertEquals(expected, bench.dotProductNativeQuery(), delta);
+                if (Int7uScorerBenchmark.supportsHeapSegments()) {
+                    expected = bench.dotProductLuceneQuery();
+                    assertEquals(expected, bench.dotProductNativeQuery(), delta);
+                }
             } finally {
                 bench.teardown();
             }
@@ -60,8 +62,10 @@ public void testSquareDistance() throws Exception {
                 assertEquals(expected, bench.squareDistanceLucene(), delta);
                 assertEquals(expected, bench.squareDistanceNative(), delta);
 
-                expected = bench.squareDistanceLuceneQuery();
-                assertEquals(expected, bench.squareDistanceNativeQuery(), delta);
+                if (Int7uScorerBenchmark.supportsHeapSegments()) {
+                    expected = bench.squareDistanceLuceneQuery();
+                    assertEquals(expected, bench.squareDistanceNativeQuery(), delta);
+                }
             } finally {
                 bench.teardown();
             }