Maybe these pictures can help you: https://kafka.apache.org/images/log_anatomy.png http://www.michael-noll.com/blog/uploads/kafka-topics-partitions-replicas.png http://www.michael-noll.com/blog/uploads/kafka-cluster-overview.png
And of course, this post might help too: http://www.michael-noll.com/blog/2013/03/13/running-a-multi-broker-apache-kafka-cluster-on-a-single-node/ 2014-02-27 7:17 GMT+01:00 Balasubramanian Jayaraman (Contingent) < balasubramanian.jayara...@autodesk.com>: > Hi, > > I have a doubt regarding to Partition and replica. What is the difference > between them? > I created a topic "test1" with 5 partition and 3 replicas. I am sending a > message to the topic "test1". I see that different partitions are present > in the different Kafka brokers. > Some questions on this topic > > 1. Will that message be sent to all the partitions? > > 2. When it will be replicated to all the partitions? > > 3. When it will be replicated to all the replicas? > > Thanks > Bala >
