renamed
Standard clusters
Standard clusters was renamed - Databricks now calls it Standard and Dedicated access modes, as of August 2022.
Standard clusters No isolation shared access mode Shared / Single user access modes Standard and Dedicated access modes
The original default cluster mode - a cluster that multiple users could share with no isolation between them, recommended for single users and running Python, SQL, R and Scala.
- It was the default cluster mode, yet the docs officially recommended it for single users only - while warning it could be shared by multiple users with no isolation between them.
- A High Concurrency cluster without Table ACLs or credential passthrough quietly ran with exactly the same settings as a Standard one.
- Retiring the word did not last - 'standard' came back as the name for the formerly shared access mode, which is the isolated, Unity Catalog one.
- Category
- Compute / BI
- Also known as
- Standard cluster mode, Standard mode clusters
- Verified
- 2026-09-27