Azure Databricks - Running Jobs in Ineractive Cluster vs JobsCluster

Question

All,

Other than cost being one of the factors, Why would one want to use an Interactive Cluster (High Concurrency) to run nightly jobs instead of running them using JobClusters via Pools.

Thanks,
grajee

Answer 1

Hello @Gopinath Rajee ,

Thanks for the question and using MS Q&A platform.

Interactive clusters are used to analyze data collaboratively with interactive notebooks. Job clusters are used to run fast and robust automated workflows using the UI or API.

So, while in development phase, you will mostly use interactive cluster. On the other hand once you move to production where things are more in a automated way, job clusters comes in picture.

For more details, refer to Azure Databricks - Clusters.

Hope this will help. Please let us know if any further queries.

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