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Databricks architecture

Databricks control plane is the SaaS UI and jobs service. Data plane is compute in your cloud account, next to your data.

Lesson 1 of 14 · Databricks path

Explain it at my level

  1. Control plane
  2. Data plane
  3. Cluster
Watch the canvas:control plane (Databricks SaaS)data plane (your cloud)object storageLive simulation
Databricks control plane — SaaSWorkspace UInotebooks · identityJobs serviceschedules · workflowsMetastore APInames · grantsAPIstatusYou click in the workspace. That is SaaS. No gold.orders file lives here.
Control plane orchestrates. Data plane holds compute and files. Never mix the two.