Astra Streaming Limits

DataStax Astra Streaming includes guardrails and limits to ensure good practices, foster availability, and promote optimal configurations for your databases.

The below limits are for Pay As You Go clusters. These limits may be changed on dedicated clusters if necessary. Contact Support to change the limits on a dedicated cluster.

Astra Streaming guardrails

Guardrails are initially provisioned in the default settings by Astra Streaming and cannot be changed directly by users. If you need assistance, open a support ticket.

Guardrail

Limit

Number of tenants per organization*

Number of namespaces per tenant

Number of topics per namespace

100

Max message size**

5MB (default)

Max throughput per topic for consumer

5000 messages/s, 25MB/s
Max throughput for a non-partitioned topic or a single partition of a partitioned topic.

Max throughput per topic for producer

5000 messages/s, 25MB/s
Multiple producers to a non-partitioned topic or a single partition of a partitioned topic can produce a combined 5000 messages per second maximum.

Max throughput per subscription

5000 messages/s, 25MB/s
Multiple subscriptions from a non-partitioned topic or a single partition of a partitioned topic can dispatch a combined 5000 messages per second maximum.

Auto topic creation

Disabled

Number of producers per topic

Number of consumers per topic

Number of consumers per subscription

Max unacked messages per consumer

50000

Max unacked messages per subscription

200000

Subscription Expiry

Not set

*These guardrails cannot be changed.

**Max message size can be changed on dedicated clusters, but not serverless clusters. If you need assistance, open a support ticket.

Function and connector resource limits

Functions and connector resources are set in the control plane per pod resource limits. The user cannot customize these resources. The default settings are:

CPU: 0.25 core
RAM: 500 MB

Custom functions can only be created by qualified organizations. A qualified organization is an organization on the Pay As You Go plan with a payment method on file. Upgrade your organization to a qualified organization by:

Enrolling in the Pay As You Go plan in the Astra Portal with a payment method. For more, see Plan Options.
Contacting our sales team to see how we can help.
Opening a support ticket.

Unqualified orgs can still use transform functions.

Non-changeable configurations

Data persistency (En,Qw,Qa)
Managedledger policy/deletion
Namespace bundle related
Bundle split
Bundle level clear backlog
Bundle level unload
Bundle level subscribe and unsubscribe
Replication
Delayed delivery
Offload policy
Offload deletion

Pulsar-admin CLI limits

The following pulsar-admin commands don’t work with Astra Streaming, either because they’re not applicable in a cloud environment or they would cause issues with privacy or data integrity:

brokers
broker-stats
clusters
ns-isolation-policies
resource-quotas
tenants

For more on pulsar-admin, see the Apache Pulsar documentation.

Astra Streaming namespace policies

These namespace policies are initially provisioned in the default settings by Astra Streaming and can be changed by users.

Policy

Default Setting

Exposed by UI?

Max retention time

Disabled/no data retention by default

Yes

Max retention size

Disabled/no data retention by default

Yes

Max TTL

Infinite, minimum setting is 2 days

Yes

Backlog size

5 GB, minimum setting is -1, which disables backlog size quota enforcement

Yes

Backlog Quota Retention Policy

Producer Exception

Yes

Unload topic

Enabled

Yes

Message deduplicate

Disabled

Subscription auto creation

Enabled

Subscription expiration per namespace

Default policy: subscription_expiration_time_minutes as 0

Inactive topic policy

Default policy: delete_when_no_subscriptions set to two days

The total characters of tenant name + namespace name + function name cannot exceed 54 characters. This is a Kubernetes restriction based on a pod label’s maximum size of 63 characters. You can read more about Kubernetes pod naming restrictions here.

Astra Streaming topic and namespace actions

These topic and namespace actions are initially provisioned in the default settings by Astra Streaming and can be performed by users.

Allowed Action

Default Setting

Exposed by UI?

Terminate topic

Enabled

Unload namespace

Enabled

Clear backlog at topic level

Enabled

Clear backlog at namespace level

Enabled

Set compaction threshold at namespace level

Disabled

Trigger compaction at topic level

Enabled

Topic compaction

Enabled

All subscription expiration

Dedicated clusters

Message throughput, rate, and message max size can be customized on dedicated clusters. If you need assistance, open a support ticket.

Guardrail

Limit

Number of tenants per organization

No limit

Number of namespaces per tenant

Number of topics per namespace

5000

Number of functions per namespace

5000

Functions resources

0.50 core, 1GB RAM

Consumers per topic

500

Subscriptions per topic

500

Producers per topic

500

Configuration file

Here is an example default namespace policy with limits set:

{
  "auth_policies" : {
    "namespace_auth" : {
      "client;{client key}" : [ "consume", "produce" ],
      "websocket" : [ "consume", "produce" ]
    },
    "destination_auth" : { },
    "subscription_auth_roles" : { }
  },
  "replication_clusters" : [ "pulsar-gcp-europewest1" ],
  "bundles" : {
    "boundaries" : [ "0x00000000", "0x40000000", "0x80000000", "0xc0000000", "0xffffffff" ],
    "numBundles" : 4
  },
  "backlog_quota_map" : {
    "destination_storage" : {
      "limit" : 1000000000,
      "policy" : "producer_exception"
    }
  },
  "clusterDispatchRate" : { },
  "topicDispatchRate" : {
    "pulsar-gcp-europewest1" : {
      "dispatchThrottlingRateInMsg" : 5000,
      "dispatchThrottlingRateInByte" : 25000000,
      "relativeToPublishRate" : false,
      "ratePeriodInSecond" : 1
    }
  },
  "subscriptionDispatchRate" : {
    "pulsar-gcp-europewest1" : {
      "dispatchThrottlingRateInMsg" : 5000,
      "dispatchThrottlingRateInByte" : 25000000,
      "relativeToPublishRate" : false,
      "ratePeriodInSecond" : 1
    }
  },
  "replicatorDispatchRate" : { },
  "clusterSubscribeRate" : {
    "pulsar-gcp-europewest1" : {
      "subscribeThrottlingRatePerConsumer" : 5000,
      "ratePeriodInSecond" : 30
    }
  },
  "persistence" : {
    "bookkeeperEnsemble" : 2,
    "bookkeeperWriteQuorum" : 2,
    "bookkeeperAckQuorum" : 2,
    "managedLedgerMaxMarkDeleteRate" : 0.0
  },
  "deduplicationEnabled" : false,
  "autoTopicCreationOverride" : {
    "allowAutoTopicCreation" : false,
    "topicType" : "",
    "defaultNumPartitions" : 0
  },
  "publishMaxMessageRate" : {
    "pulsar-gcp-europewest1" : {
      "publishThrottlingRateInMsg" : 1000,
      "publishThrottlingRateInByte" : 5000000
    }
  },
  "latency_stats_sample_rate" : { },
  "message_ttl_in_seconds" : 0,
  "subscription_expiration_time_minutes" : 0,
  "retention_policies" : {
    "retentionTimeInMinutes" : 2880,
    "retentionSizeInMB" : -1
  },
  "deleted" : false,
  "encryption_required" : false,
  "inactive_topic_policies" : {
    "inactiveTopicDeleteMode" : "delete_when_no_subscriptions",
    "maxInactiveDurationSeconds" : 86400,
    "deleteWhileInactive" : true
  },
  "subscription_auth_mode" : "None",
  "max_producers_per_topic" : 50,
  "max_consumers_per_topic" : 50,
  "max_consumers_per_subscription" : 50,
  "max_unacked_messages_per_consumer" : 50000,
  "max_unacked_messages_per_subscription" : 200000,
  "compaction_threshold" : 0,
  "offload_threshold" : -1,
  "offload_deletion_lag_ms" : 0,
  "schema_auto_update_compatibility_strategy" : "Full",
  "schema_compatibility_strategy" : "UNDEFINED",
  "is_allow_auto_update_schema" : true,
  "schema_validation_enforced" : false
}