The Snowflake Kafka Connector guarantees that rows are inserted in the order they were originally published.

• A. TRUE
• B. FALSE
• C. It guarantees only for single partition
• D. It guarantees only for last-in-first-out

Answer: (B)

Ordering of rows in a Snowflake Kafka Connector setup is not globally guaranteed. Kafka itself preserves the order of messages within each partition, but the connector ingests data by batching and often processes data from multiple partitions in parallel. This parallel loading and batching means data from different partitions can be written to Snowflake out of the exact publish order. Retries, rebalancing, and multi-threaded ingestion further reduce the likelihood of a strict global order. If you need deterministic ordering, design around a single partition or include a sequence/timestamp field that you can use to reconstruct the intended order when querying.