[salt-shaker]

I was curious about it, so I tried to figure out where you got this number from. It looks like your source is https://www.tpc.org/results/individual_results/databricks/da..., but you interpreted it wrong. The number you quoted is the projected 3-year ownership of the system configuration that was used to run the test, so the actual cost is a small fraction of the number you quoted.

[oxfordmale]

It is worth noting the compute cost appears to be based on purchasing reserved instances from AWS. The price of on demand instances is much higher.

The laptop is also very low budget. I am sure it is fine to run the final query, however, you would unlikely to be able to use that as a development machine.