Databricks Community Edition

Databricks Community Edition is retired, replaced by Databricks Free Edition (retired January 2026).

Databricks Community Edition → Databricks Free Edition

The original free tier of Databricks (2016-2025): a single micro-cluster plus a cluster manager and notebook environment, aimed at learning Apache Spark at no cost with limited resources.

• It debuted at Spark Summit East in February 2016 under the banner 'Apache Spark for all,' handing anyone a free micro-cluster and notebook to start learning Spark. 🔗
• It caught on fast - Databricks counted thousands of registered users and tens of thousands of notebooks within months of the beta - and reached general availability on June 7, 2016. 🔗

Category

Developer experience

Deprecated

2025🔗

Access ended

January 2026🔗

Announced at

Access ended January 1, 2026🔗

Also known as

Community Edition, DCE

Verified

2026-08-20