Hubert-Dudek
Databricks MVP

Officialy it is for compute time so DBU will be per minute since you start cluster (so 5 in your example). Additionally you will pay for at least 5 minute for instance in your cloud provider (from my experience usually it is a bit more as terminating and cleaning resources takes time). In databricks roadmap there is serverless offering so in future it will be a bit less complicated and more cost effective.


My blog: https://databrickster.medium.com/