Partition count
Partition count is the configured number of partitions into which a partitioned data set is divided.
Apache Kafka in Action
A partition count is the configured number of partitions belonging to a Kafka topic.
- How it is used
- Sets topic parallelism for producers, brokers, and consumer groups while balancing throughput against ordering and operating costs.
- How deep it goes
- Works through sizing heuristics and increase-only changes, including their effects on data distribution and keyed-message order.
- Examples
- Uses a price-change topic with two partitions, topic-inspection commands, and an illustration of keys moving after an increase.
- What you can do after
- Operate and configure it with `kafka-topics.sh`, then evaluate whether added parallelism justifies resource costs and ordering risks.
Kafka for Architects
A partition count is the configured number of partitions assigned to a Kafka topic.
- How it is used
- Configures topic parallelism while constraining ordering and influencing broker recovery and metadata workload.
- How deep it goes
- Explains selection trade-offs, key-based ordering, resource costs, metadata limits, recovery effects, and topic-change constraints.
- Examples
- Uses Customer 360 profile and transaction topics, nine-partition configurations, and keyed customer balance updates.
- What you can do after
- Evaluate partition sizing and configure topics without separating parallelism, ordering, availability, and operational cost.
Related concepts
- Order propertycontrasts with · An order property specifies the relative sequence, precedence, or position of elements, events, or operations.
- topic alterationconfigured by · Topic alteration is the Kafka operation that changes supported properties of an existing topic.
- throughputproduces · The amount of work, data, or output a system processes or completes per unit of time.
- Apache Kafkaconfigures · Apache Kafka is a distributed event-streaming platform for publishing, storing, processing, and consuming streams of records.
- partitionconfigures · A partition is a distinct subdivision of a larger data, storage, or work unit that can be stored, managed, or processed separately.
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