Kishu: Time-Traveling for Computational Notebooks

Summary: Kishu brings DBMS-style time travel to computational notebooks via fault-tolerant incremental checkpoint/checkout. Co-variable-granularity checkpoints preserve inter-variable dependencies, enabling arbitrary-state restoration with sub-second latency and broad data-science library compatibility. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 14440
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 11,111 | 23.77%
DOI: 10.14778/3717755.3717759

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Authors

1. Zhaoheng Li (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
2. Supawit Chockchowwat (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
3. Ribhav Sahu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
4. Areet Sheth (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
5. Yongjoo Park (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

BibTeX Citation

@article{li_vldb25,
        title = {{Kishu: Time-Traveling for Computational Notebooks}},
        author = {Li, Zhaoheng and Chockchowwat, Supawit and Sahu, Ribhav and Sheth, Areet and Park, Yongjoo},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '25},
        volume = {18},
        number = {4},
        pages = {970--985},
        doi = {10.14778/3717755.3717759},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3717755.3717759},
        year = {2025}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,584	QStore: Quantization-Aware Compressed Model Storage	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,600	Chipmink: Efficient Delta Identification for Massive Object Graphs	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05
10,715	Demo of Kishu: Time-Traveling for Computational Notebooks	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
73	Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	0.00037333356
1,480	Write-Behind Logging	2017	VLDB	0.00010649376
1,767	IDEBench: A Benchmark for Interactive Data Exploration	2020	SIGMOD	9.805856e-05
2,050	Vizdom: Interactive Analytics through Pen and Touch	2015	VLDB	9.2546631e-05
2,924	Constant Time Recovery in Azure SQL Database	2019	VLDB	7.9562091e-05
3,072	Lux: Always-on Visualization Recommendations for Exploratory Dataframe Workflows	2022	VLDB	7.7873864e-05
4,373	Data Debugging and Exploration with Vizier	2019	SIGMOD	6.738145e-05
5,026	ORPHEUSDB: A Lightweight Approach to Relational Dataset Versioning	2017	SIGMOD	6.3970621e-05
5,788	Bolt-on, Compact, and Rapid Program Slicing for Notebooks	2022	VLDB	6.0875411e-05
5,931	Your notebook is not crumby enough, REPLace it	2020	CIDR	6.0369708e-05
6,071	Fine-Grained Lineage for Safer Notebook Interactions	2021	VLDB	5.9873765e-05
9,106	AirIndex: Versatile Index Tuning Through Data and Storage	2023	SIGMOD	5.3226167e-05
10,075	ElasticNotebook: Enabling Live Migration for Computational Notebooks	2024	VLDB	5.1613298e-05
10,715	Demo of Kishu: Time-Traveling for Computational Notebooks	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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