Kafka topics support two main cleanup policies:

delete: The default policy where Kafka deletes old log segments based on retention time or size.

compact: Enables log compaction, retaining only the latest value for each key.

From Kafka documentation:

“Valid cleanup.policy values are 'delete' and 'compact'.”

B → Invalid: 'default' is not a recognized cleanup policy.

D → Invalid: 'cleanup' is not a valid keyword in this context.

Page Reference:

Kafka: The Definitive Guide, 1st Edition, Chapter 6, p. 196–197

Apache Kafka Documentation: Topic Configs – cleanup.policy

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