Getting Started

• 5-min Quickstart Guide
  • Step 0: Create an Account
  • Step 1: Setting up Ponder
  • Step 2: Login to Authenticate
  • Step 3: Initialize Ponder
  • Step 4: Configure your database connection
  • Step 5: Selecting Your Data Source
  • Step 6: Starting Pondering 🎉
• Establishing Database Connection
  • Connecting to Snowflake
  • Connecting to BigQuery
  • Connecting to DuckDB
• Selecting Your Data Source
  • read_sql: Working with existing tables
  • read_csv: Working with CSV files
  • read_parquet: Working with Parquet files
• Saving Your Results
  • to_sql: Save as Database Table
  • to_csv: Save as CSV file
• Examples and Resources
  • Tutorials
  • Examples
  • Blogposts
• Comparison with other DataFrame systems
  • System Overview
    • Spark Dataframe API
    • Snowpark DataFrame API
    • Polars
  • How is Ponder different from other DataFrame systems?
    • pandas API coverage differences
    • Dataframe Semantics
    • Backend-Agnostic