cancel
Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
Help
Data Engineering
Join discussions on data engineering best practices, architectures, and optimization strategies within the Databricks Community. Exchange insights and solutions with fellow data engineers.
cancel
Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Forum Posts

Start a conversation
User16826992666
by • Valued Contributor
  • 5658 Views
  • 1 replies
  • 0 kudos

Resolved! When should I use single node clusters vs standard?

I see that single node is a cluster mode option that I have when creating clusters. When should I use this compared to the standard mode?

Data Engineering
Reply
  • 5658 Views
  • 1 replies
  • 0 kudos
View Replies
Latest Reply
sean_owen
Honored Contributor II
  • 0 kudos

Single-node, like the name implies, is a single machine. It still has Spark, just a local cluster. This is a good choice if you are running a workload that does not use Spark, or only needs it for data access. One good example is a small deep learnin...

  • 0 kudos
Labels