Databricks Execution & Compute Run code on Databricks. Three execution modes—choose based on workload. Execution Mode Decision Matrix | Aspect | Databricks Connect ⭐ | Serverless Job | Interactive Cluster | |--------|-------------------|----------------|---------------------| | Use for | Spark code (ETL, data gen) | Heavy processing (ML) | State across tool calls, Scala/R | | Startup | Instant | 25-50s cold start | 5min if stopped | | State | Within Python process | None | Via context id | | Languages | Python (PySpark) | Python, SQL | Python, Scala, SQL, R | | Dependencies | | CLI with envir…