Iceberg REST Catalog Viewer — Browse Tables in Your Browser

You have an Iceberg REST Catalog. You want to see what’s in it — namespaces, tables, schemas, partitions. Normally that means firing up Spark, Trino, or at least a Python notebook with pyiceberg. PondPilot lets you browse it all from a browser tab.

Browse Your Catalog

PondPilot connects to Iceberg REST Catalogs via DuckDB’s Iceberg support in WASM. Once connected, you can:

  • List namespaces and tables
  • Inspect table schemas and column types
  • View partition specs
  • Query data with SQL
  • Export query results to CSV or Parquet

Setup

  1. Open app.pondpilot.io
  2. Enter your Iceberg REST Catalog endpoint
  3. Provide credentials if required
  4. Start browsing

No JVM. No Docker containers. No YAML configuration files. Just a URL and you’re in.

Ad-Hoc Exploration

The real value is speed. When a data engineer asks “what tables are in the prod catalog?” or “what does the schema of that new table look like?” — you don’t need to SSH into a server or wait for a Spark session to start. Open PondPilot and check in seconds.

SELECT * FROM iceberg_catalog.analytics.user_events LIMIT 100

Query Without Compute Infrastructure

PondPilot’s SQL engine runs in your browser via WebAssembly. For exploration queries — previewing data, checking row counts, validating schemas — you don’t need a compute cluster. The browser is the compute.

For heavy analytical queries over large datasets, you’ll still want proper infrastructure. But for 90% of “let me just check something” moments, PondPilot is instant.

Get Started

Visit app.pondpilot.io and connect to your Iceberg catalog.

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