The PointCast Network

Summary: Distributed client/server network delivering real-time news; DataCenter with PointServers ingests 100+ sources into content databases. Key design: fault tolerance, load balancing, pre-caching, bandwidth-aware packaging, and low-latency delivery under web-scale load. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3114
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1998
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,166 | 2.81%
DOI: 10.1145/276304.276361

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Authors

1. Satish Ramakrishnan (PointCast Inc.)
2. Vibha Dayal (PointCast Inc.)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{ramakrishnan_sigmod98,
        title = {{The PointCast Network}},
        author = {Ramakrishnan, Satish and Dayal, Vibha},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '98},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/276304.276361},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/276304.276361},
        year = {1998}
}

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