PSA: old Databricks names vs new ones. Which rename got you?
Databricks has renamed a lot of features over the past year, and a lot of tutorials, blog posts, Stack Overflow answers and even AI assistants still use the old names. If you search the docs for the old name, the results can be confusing, and code samples can look unfamiliar even when you know the concept cold.
The ones I see trip people up most:
- Delta Live Tables / DLT → Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines (often shortened to Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines)
- APPLY CHANGES INTO → AUTO CDC APIs
- Databricks Asset Bundles / DABs → Declarative Automation Bundles
The concepts didn't change much, but the vocabulary did.
Two questions for the sub:
- Has a rename caught you out, at work, in docs, or in a code review?
- Did I miss any? I'm sure there are more, especially on the ML / GenAI side.
I'll keep this list updated with whatever people add.
Edit: removed Liquid Clustering from the list. Fair point from a commenter that it's a change in recommendation, not a rename. Still worth knowing though: older material treats partitioning + Z-Order as the default, and current docs recommend Liquid Clustering for new tables.