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