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: h983b0e94eb1202f0
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 5.0715586e-05
Overall Rank: 10,151 | 31.76%
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 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,146	QStore: Quantization-Aware Compressed Model Storage	2026	VLDB	5.0715586e-05
10,898	stratum: A System Infrastructure for Massive Agent-Centric ML Workloads	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,047	Chipmink: Efficient Delta Identification for Massive Object Graphs	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,147	Demo of Kishu: Time-Traveling for Computational Notebooks	2025	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-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
63	Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases	2017	SIGMOD	0.00038531147
1,437	Write-Behind Logging	2017	VLDB	0.0001065408
1,797	IDEBench: A Benchmark for Interactive Data Exploration	2020	SIGMOD	9.6187325e-05
2,096	Vizdom: Interactive Analytics through Pen and Touch	2015	VLDB	9.0550231e-05
2,951	Constant Time Recovery in Azure SQL Database	2019	VLDB	7.8166642e-05
3,098	Lux: Always-on Visualization Recommendations for Exploratory Dataframe Workflows	2022	VLDB	7.6517623e-05
4,449	Data Debugging and Exploration with Vizier	2019	SIGMOD	6.5953404e-05
5,114	ORPHEUSDB: A Lightweight Approach to Relational Dataset Versioning	2017	SIGMOD	6.2680307e-05
5,900	Bolt-on, Compact, and Rapid Program Slicing for Notebooks	2022	VLDB	5.9544996e-05
6,046	Your notebook is not crumby enough, REPLace it	2020	CIDR	5.9052121e-05
6,190	Fine-Grained Lineage for Safer Notebook Interactions	2021	VLDB	5.8565828e-05
8,532	AirIndex: Versatile Index Tuning Through Data and Storage	2023	SIGMOD	5.3217474e-05
10,279	ElasticNotebook: Enabling Live Migration for Computational Notebooks	2024	VLDB	5.0455234e-05
11,147	Demo of Kishu: Time-Traveling for Computational Notebooks	2025	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

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