Interactive Clusters

Interactive Clusters was renamed - Databricks now calls it All-purpose compute, as of February 2020.

Interactive Clusters → All-purpose compute

The original name for a long-lived cluster you attach notebooks to and share with a team, as opposed to one spun up to run a job and thrown away.

• The rename was justified on the grounds that people were not only being interactive with them, which is a polite way of saying the name had been wrong for years. 🔗
• The release note that retired this name is itself misdated. It sits on the February 2020 page under a heading that reads 2019, which would have put it a year before the version that preceded it. 🔗

Category

Compute / BI

Renamed

February 2020🔗

Also known as

Interactive Cluster, Existing Interactive Cluster

Verified

2026-09-17