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Compute types

All-purpose clusters for notebooks, job clusters that terminate, SQL warehouses for BI. Mixing them is how the bill explodes.

Explain it at my level

  1. All-purpose
  2. Jobs
  3. SQL warehouse
  4. Pick
Watch the canvas:all-purposejobs clusterSQL warehouseLive simulation
All-purpose clusternotebooks · stays oninteractiveJobs clusterstart → run → terminateETL / WorkflowsSQL warehousePhoton · autoscaledashboards / DBSQLWarm SparkSession. Great for explore. Terrible as a 24/7 ETL host.
Three compute products. Mixing them is how the bill explodes.