Databricks makes IP Functions generally available for network analytics in SQL

Databricks has made IP Functions generally available, letting users parse, validate, and join IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and CIDR blocks with built-in SQL functions optimized in Photon.

In benchmarks versus another leading cloud data warehouse, CIDR joins ran up to 3.1x faster and cost up to 6.4x less. The functions support its Security Lakehouse vision for threat detection, investigation, and network analytics on one governed copy of data.