# Bad Influence story: Databricks releases UCDataset beta to stream Unity Catalog tables to GPU training

Active · 1 article · 1 source · First reported 11-09 10:00. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/7362cc50-5490-4095-a4f1-ef118cd70d0f

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Latest update (11-09 10:00): Databricks releases UCDataset in Beta to stream Unity Catalog tables to GPUs

Overview: Databricks releases UCDataset in Beta on AI Runtime, a PyTorch data loader that streams Unity Catalog tables directly to every GPU in a training job without exports or copies. Databricks reports an average 10x training-time improvement over reading an exported Parquet copy, measured on a simulated 300 GB recommendation workload across 8 NVIDIA H100 GPUs.

The Beta reads Delta tables only. It cannot yet read tables with row filters or column masks.

Coverage timeline (newest first):
1. 11-09 10:00 · Databricks Blog (from the company) · [Databricks releases UCDataset in Beta to stream Unity Catalog tables to GPUs](https://badinfluence.news/items/rw2evct2zxlb66l428jzyvicb)
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