What things are called now
Databricks renames products faster than exam guides are reissued. Type the name you met — old or new — and this tells you what it is called today, and what it was called when the question was written.
Studying for a certification? Read the old names as the answers. A guide published before a rename keeps the old wording until it is reissued, soDelta Live Tables and Vector Search are still the right words in an exam question, even though the product no longer uses them.
2026 14 renames
Mosaic AI GatewayUnity Gateway
- Mosaic AI GatewayRate limits, guardrails, usage tracking and payload logging in front of model endpoints.
- Unity GatewayGenerally available since August 2026, with governed model services as Unity Catalog securables.
The Generative AI Engineer Associate guide says AI Gateway. The old per-endpoint configuration page is now marked legacy in the docs.
Genie spacesGenie Agents
- Genie spacesA curated space where business users ask questions in natural language.
- Genie AgentsRenamed as the spaces became agents with tools and a knowledge layer.
The Data Analyst Associate guide says Genie spaces.
Mosaic AI Agent FrameworkCustom agents
- Mosaic AI Agent FrameworkThe set of APIs and conventions for writing an agent as ordinary Python.
- Custom agentsThe documentation section is now Custom Agents, and no product carries the Agent Framework name.
The Generative AI Engineer Associate guide still says Agent Framework, and so does most written material. The concepts did not change; the name did.
Lakehouse MonitoringData profiling
- Lakehouse MonitoringScheduled statistics and drift metrics for a table.
- Data profilingNow one half of Unity Catalog data quality monitoring, next to anomaly detection.
The docs still say "Data profiling was formerly known as Lakehouse Monitoring".
Mosaic AI Model Serving, Mosaic AI Vector Search, Mosaic AI Agent FrameworkModel Serving, AI Search, Agent Bricks
- Mosaic AI Model Serving, Mosaic AI Vector Search, Mosaic AI Agent FrameworkThe Mosaic AI umbrella came from the MosaicML acquisition and covered the whole AI stack.
- Model Serving, AI Search, Agent BricksThe Mosaic AI prefix has been dropped from the AWS documentation.
Every AI exam guide and most blog posts still write Mosaic AI in front of these names. They are the same products.
Online tablesOnline Feature Store
- Online tablesLow-latency copies of a feature table for real-time serving.
- Online Feature StoreNow backed by Lakebase, provisioned with create_online_store and fed by publish_table.
The Machine Learning Associate guide predates the change and says online tables. The old documentation URL now redirects.
Delta UniForm (Universal Format)Iceberg reads
- Delta UniForm (Universal Format)Generates Iceberg metadata next to Delta, so Iceberg clients can read the same files.
- Iceberg readsThe feature name today. UniForm survives as the name of the metadata layer underneath.
Written material says UniForm, and so does the table property. The docs page is now titled around Iceberg reads instead.
Delta SharingOpenSharing
- Delta SharingThe open protocol for sharing tables across organisations and platforms.
- OpenSharingRenamed alongside the open-source release of the wider sharing standard.
Every exam guide and most blog posts still say Delta Sharing.
Databricks One·GenieGenie One
- Databricks OneThe simplified workspace for business users, with no compute or notebooks in sight.
- GenieBriefly just "Genie", which collided with the Genie Agents name.
- Genie OneCurrent name for the consumer entry point: dashboards, chat and apps in one place.
Two renames in three months, so material from early 2026 may use any of the three names.
Mosaic AI Vector SearchAI Search
- Mosaic AI Vector SearchVector indexes over Delta tables, queried by embedding similarity.
- AI SearchRenamed when full-text indexes arrived, which need no embeddings at all.
The Generative AI Engineer Associate guide predates the rename and says Vector Search.
DimensionsFields
- DimensionsWhat a Genie Agent called the columns you can group and filter by.
- FieldsSame thing, renamed inside Genie Agents and in metric views.
A small rename, but the Data Analyst Associate questions about Genie use the old word.
Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs)Declarative Automation Bundles
- Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs)The name in the CLI, in most repositories and in every tutorial so far.
- Declarative Automation BundlesRenamed as the scope widened beyond deploying jobs and pipelines.
The command is still databricks bundle, and the file is still databricks.yml, so in practice you will keep hearing DABs.
Databricks AssistantGenie Code
- Databricks AssistantThe in-product AI helper in notebooks, the SQL editor and dashboards.
- Genie CodeRenamed when it gained agentic, multi-step capabilities.
Anything written before March 2026 calls it Databricks Assistant.
Agent Bricks: Multi-Agent SupervisorSupervisor Agent
- Agent Bricks: Multi-Agent Supervisor
- Supervisor AgentThe Agent Bricks component that routes a request across several agents.
Recent enough that most written material still uses the longer name.
2025 4 renames
Delta Live Tables (DLT)·Lakeflow Declarative PipelinesLakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines
- Delta Live Tables (DLT)The name every exam guide and tutorial written before mid-2025 uses.
- Lakeflow Declarative PipelinesFirst Lakeflow-era name, still the wording in some breadcrumbs.
- Lakeflow Spark Declarative PipelinesCurrent name. The docs also shorten it to "Lakeflow pipelines".
Exam guides still say Delta Live Tables. The SKUs still start with DLT and the event log keeps dlt in its schema names, so the old name is not going away.
Databricks Jobs·Databricks WorkflowsLakeflow Jobs
- Databricks JobsThe original name, still the one in the REST API paths and in the SDK.
- Databricks WorkflowsThe name the whole orchestration surface carried for years, and the one most exam guides use.
- Lakeflow JobsCurrent name, part of the Lakeflow family with Connect and the declarative pipelines.
Exam guides and the certification portal still say Workflows. The docs no longer mention the old name at all, which makes it easy to think they are two products.
Shared and Single userStandard and dedicated
- Shared and Single userWhat the cluster access modes were called when Unity Catalog arrived.
- Standard and dedicatedStandard is the multi-user, Lakeguard-isolated mode; dedicated is one user or one group.
Exam questions and older material say Shared and Single user. The cluster UI now says Standard and Dedicated, which is the same thing renamed.
APPLY CHANGESAUTO CDC
- APPLY CHANGESThe declarative pipeline API for change data capture, with the same syntax.
- AUTO CDCSame behaviour, new name. The old API still works.
The docs are explicit: the AUTO CDC APIs replace the APPLY CHANGES APIs and have the same syntax. Exam questions written earlier say APPLY CHANGES, and the answer is the same either way.
Nothing matches that name. The agent that watches the release notes files renames it finds for review.
Each entry links to the release note that announced the change. Old names are never deleted here: half the internet, and every exam guide written before the rename, still uses them.