# Confluent Kafka as a logs caching server

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**Created:** [24 January 2022 04:22 UTC](https://forum.confluent.io/t/confluent-kafka-as-a-logs-caching-server/3963 "2022-01-24T04:22:04Z")\
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Hi @luke_devon

basically you’re limited by the power of your underlying hardware.

to get a rough estimate for your cluster you could also try the sizing calculator made by confluent [https://eventsizer.io/](https://eventsizer.io/)

Some further reading about amount of partitions per cluster:

> **[How to Choose the Number of Topics/Partitions in a Kafka Cluster? | Confluent](https://www.confluent.io/blog/how-choose-number-topics-partitions-kafka-cluster/)**
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> Confluent is building the foundational platform for data in motion so any organization can innovate and win in a digital-first world.

> **[Apache Kafka Supports 200K Partitions Per Cluster | Confluent](https://www.confluent.io/blog/apache-kafka-supports-200k-partitions-per-cluster/)**
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> Since the Apache Kafka® 1.1.0 release, there has been a significant increase in the number of partitions that a single Kafka cluster can support from the deployment and the availability perspective.

just to be clear with the naming of Kafka and confluent platform 😉  
have a look at

> [@Apache Kafka and Confluent Kafka](https://forum.confluent.io/t/apache-kafka-and-confluent-kafka/3974/4):
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> Welcome @jiyeke! @vnadkarni has answered your question well, I would just add a couple more things. There’s no such thing as Confluent Kafka. Confluent includes Kafka within its distribution, but as @vnadkarni said, Kafka owned by the ASF and so it is only ever Apache Kafka. Confluent have built ecosystem component around Apache Kafka, including: ksqlDB (streaming database) Schema Registry REST Proxy Web-based GUI Clients for Python, Go, C/C++, .NET Many [connectors](https://www.confluent.io/hub/) for Kafka Connect You ca…

hth,  
michael

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