Yes, the reason for this is that if two consumers consumed the same partition internally we would have to keep track of per-message consumption (which is expensive) and the ordering guarantee would be broken (since the actual processing in the two consumer processes might happen out of order). Since you can always have more partitions this should not be a limitation, just a parameter to be aware of.
-Jay On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Vaibhav Puranik <vpura...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > We have a topic with three partitions - one on each broker (Kafka 0.7.1). > Using ConsumerConnector I noticed that I can consume messages from three > consumers at most. When I start fourth one, one of the older one stops. > > Is this as designed? If I want more parallelism, do I need to increase > number of partitions? > > Regards, > Vaibhav > GumGum >
