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title: "IP Functions"
description: "1 posts about IP Functions, summarised, each linking to the original."
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# IP Functions
> 1 posts about IP Functions, summarised, each linking to the original.

## Articles

### [IP Functions are Generally Available, bringing high-performance network analytics to the Lakehouse](https://yomu.fyi/post/ip-functions-are-generally-available-bringing-high-performance-network.md)
- Company: [Databricks](https://yomu.fyi/company/databricks.md)
- Author: Michael Andersen, Benjamin Mathew
- Published: Oct 1, 2026
- Type: Announcement

The announcement introduces the general availability of IP Functions, a feature that brings high-performance network analytics to the Lakehouse by enabling SQL-based processing of IP addresses. The post explains that IP data is warehousing data, as firewalls, load balancers, VPNs, CDN edges, DNS resolvers, Kubernetes clusters, and application servers emit streams of records keyed on IP addresses, generating tens of billions of events daily for large enterprises. These streams support valuable analytics such as threat detection, fraud investigation, and network governance. The post notes that network analytics used to be painful because IP addresses were deceptively hard to handle in SQL, with no regex support. The feature aims to simplify this by providing native IP functions for the Lakehouse.