# tPartition

Allows you to visually define how an input dataset is partitioned.

The tPartition splits the input dataset into a given number of partitions.

For more technologies supported by Talend, see [Talend components](https://help.qlik.com/talend/r/en-US/7.3/components/processing).

### In this section

* [tPartition properties for Apache Spark Batch](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/components/7.3/processing/tpartition-properties-for-apache-spark-batch)