Use an external query engine with Apache Iceberg™ tables¶

Snowflake offers the following two options for using an external query engine to query Apache Iceberg™ tables:

External query engines through Snowflake Horizon Catalog
Microsoft Fabric

External query engines through Snowflake Horizon Catalog¶

You can query Snowflake-managed Apache Iceberg™ tables by using any external query engine that supports the open Iceberg REST protocol, such as Apache Spark™. To ensure this interoperability with external engines, Apache Polaris™ (incubating) is integrated into Horizon Catalog. You can query these tables in a Snowflake account by using a single Horizon Catalog endpoint and you can use your existing users, roles, policies, and authentication in Snowflake.

For more information, see Query Apache Iceberg™ tables with an external engine through Snowflake Horizon Catalog.

Microsoft Fabric¶

To view Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables in Microsoft Fabric, you can connect a standard Snowflake database to Fabric, which syncs the database with Fabric. You can then view any Snowflake-managed Iceberg tables in the database in Fabric.

For more information, see Query Snowflake-managed Apache Iceberg™ tables by using Microsoft Fabric.