project

Databricks Serverless SQL Warehouse

Databricks SQL compute option in which Databricks runs the query engine pool itself, charged for warehouse uptime and shut down by a configurable auto-stop timer once a warehouse goes idle.

Known aliases

Databricks SQL Serverless
Serverless SQL Warehouse

Relationships

No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.

Current clusters

build1 publisher

An 8-minute dashboard heartbeat held a Databricks serverless warehouse open all weekend

A dev.to account puts one weekend of Databricks serverless compute at $14,000 and traces it to a Tableau connection that polled information_schema every eight minutes, restarting a 10-minute auto-stop timer it never let expire.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence20
Adoption12
Hype gap+30
Incentives40
Confidence35