I had the pleasure of benchmarking Databricks Free Edition (yes, really free — only an email required, no credit card, no personal data).
My task was to move 2 billion records, and the fastest runs took just under 7 minutes — completely free.
One curious thing: I repeated the process in several different ways, and after transferring around 30 billion records in total, I could still keep doing data engineering. I eventually stopped, though — I figured I’d already moved more than enough free rows and decided to give my free account a well-deserved break.
Try it yourself!
blog post: https://www.databricks.com/blog/learn-experiment-and-build-databricks-free-edition
register: https://www.databricks.com/signup
