Why Is Partition Quantity Limited?

Kafka manages messages by partition. If there are too many partitions, message creation, storage, and retrieval will be fragmented, affecting the performance and stability. If the total number of partitions of topics reaches the upper limit, you cannot create more topics.

The partition limit varies depending on the flavor, as shown in the following table.

**Table 1** Kafka instance specifications (cluster)
Flavor	Brokers	Maximum TPS per Broker	Maximum Partitions per Broker	Recommended Consumer Groups per Broker	Maximum Client Connections per Broker	Storage Space	Traffic per Broker (MB/s)
kafka.2u4g.cluster	3–30	30,000	250	20	2000	300 GB–300,000 GB	100
kafka.4u8g.cluster	3–30	100,000	500	100	4000	300 GB–600,000 GB	200
kafka.8u16g.cluster	3–50	150,000	1000	150	4000	300 GB–1,500,000 GB	375
kafka.12u24g.cluster	3–50	200,000	1500	200	4000	300 GB–1,500,000 GB	625
kafka.16u32g.cluster	3–50	250,000	2000	200	4000	300 GB–1,500,000 GB	750