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Databricks Connect (13.3 LTS+)

Databricks Connect (13.3 LTS+) is a Databricks developer experience capability, introduced 2023.

Legacy Databricks Connect Databricks Connect (13.3 LTS+)

The client library for running local DataFrame and Python code against a remote Databricks cluster, rebuilt on Spark Connect.

  • It's built on Spark Connect's gRPC client/server split, so ordinary PySpark DataFrame code on your laptop runs on a remote cluster with no code changes between local and remote.
  • It requires Databricks Runtime 13.3 LTS or above.

Limitations: Doesn't support the display() API, Databricks Utilities (credentials, library, notebook workflow, widgets), SparkContext and RDDs, distributed ML training, or CREATE TABLE AS SELECT, with version-specific restrictions such as no streaming foreachBatch and no queries over 3600 seconds on Runtime 13.3 LTS and below.

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Category
Developer experience
Introduced
2023
Also known as
Databricks Connect, databricks-connect
Verified
2026-07-18

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