Pervasive Software

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Pervasive Software Inc.
Revenue$47.2 million USD (Fiscal 2010)[1]
Websitewww.pervasive.com

Pervasive Software was a company that developed

relational database management system is its primary data storage product. These embeddable data management products deliver integration between corporate data, third-party applications and custom software.[2]

Pervasive Software was headquartered in Austin, Texas, and sold its products with partners in other countries. The company is involved in

salesforce.com.[4] It was acquired by Actian Corp.[5] in April 2013.[6]

History

Pervasive started in 1982 as SoftCraft developing the

database management system technology Btrieve. Acquired by Novell in 1987,[7] in January 1994 Pervasive spun out as Btrieve Technologies. The company name was changed to Pervasive Software in June 1996. Their initial public offering in 1997 raised $18.6 million.[8]
Ron R. Harris was chief executive and founder Nancy R. Woodward was chairman of the board of directors (the other co-founder was her husband Douglas Woodward).[9] Its shares were listed on the Nasdaq exchange under symbol PVSW.[8] Its database product was announced in 1999 as
Pervasive.SQL version 7,[10] and later renamed PSQL. PSQL implemented the atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability properties known as ACID using a relational database
model.

In August 2003, Pervasive agreed to acquire Data Junction Corporation, makers of data and application integration tools renamed Pervasive Data Integrator, for about $51.7 million in cash and stock shares.[11] Data Junction, founded in 1984, was a privately held company also headquartered in Austin. The merger closed in December 2003.[12]

Pervasive also acquired business-to-business data interchange service Channelinx in August 2009.[13] Based in Greenville, South Carolina, it continued operating under the name Pervasive Business Xchange.[14][15] In February 2011, Pervasive announced version 5 of DataRush, which included integration with the MapReduce programming model of Apache Hadoop.[16][17]

In 2013, Pervasive Software was acquired by Actian Corporation for $161.9 million.[18] Actian had initially made offers in August 2012 starting at $154 million 30% higher than its shares traded at the time,[19] and raised its price in November. Pervasive agreed to the deal in January 2013,[20] and it closed in April.[21][22]

Products

PSQL

Pervasive PSQL, also known as Pervasive.PSQL or simply PSQL (originally Btrieve) is a DBMS for embedded applications. There were four editions of Pervasive PSQL:[23]
PSQL Client, PSQL Workgroup, PSQL Server, and PSQL Vx Server.

DataRush

DataRush is a

parallel programming framework in the Java programming language.[26][27][28]
DataRush was announced in December 2006[29] and shipped in 2009.[30]

References

  1. ^ "Pervasive Software Reports Results for its Fourth Quarter of Fiscal Year 2010". Retrieved 2010-07-27.
  2. ^ "Pervasive Industry Solutions". Retrieved 2009-08-21.
  3. ^ "Cloud Integration". Retrieved 2009-08-21.
  4. ^ "Salesforce Integration". Retrieved 2009-08-21.
  5. ^ "Actian Corp".
  6. ^ Christopher Calnan (April 12, 2013). "Software maker Pervasive completes merger with Actian". Austin Business Journal. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
  7. . Retrieved November 24, 2013.
  8. ^ a b Pervasive Software (September 26, 1997). "Prospectus". Form S-1/A. US Securities and Exchange Commission. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
  9. ^ P J Connolly (March 15, 2007). "Pervasive Living Up to Its Name at 25". Software Development Times. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
  10. ^ Tim Fielden (January 18, 1999). "Pervasive.SQL simplifies development". Info World. Archived from the original on August 30, 1999. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  11. ^ Paul Krill (August 11, 2003). "Pervasive buying Data Junction: Database, integration vendors combine". Info World. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  12. ^ "Pervasive completes acquisition of Data Junction; Announces new organizational structure optimized for growth". Press release. December 8, 2003. Archived from the original on February 2, 2004. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
  13. ^ Pervasive Software (August 3, 2009). "Pervasive Software Completes Acquisition of ChanneLinx Assets". Press release. Archived from the original on August 31, 2009. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
  14. ^ "About Us". ChannelLinx web site. Archived from the original on August 16, 2009. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
  15. ^ "Pervasive Business Xchange". Commercial web site. Archived from the original on April 11, 2010. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
  16. ^ Paul Krill (February 1, 2011). "Pervasive's parallel development API paired with Hadoop MapReduce". Info World. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
  17. ^ Jim Falgout (March 1, 2011). "Dataflow Programming: A Scalable Data-Centric Approach to Parallelism". Java Developer's Journal. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
  18. ^ "Pervasive Software to be acquired by Actian for $161.9 million". Reuters. 2013-01-29. Retrieved 2020-07-22.
  19. ^ Sarah Drake (September 13, 2012). "Pervasive Software to solicit potential bids". Austin Business Journal. Retrieved December 9, 2013.
  20. ^ "Pervasive Software to be acquired by Actian for $161.9 million". Chicago Tribune. Reuters. January 28, 2013. Retrieved November 21, 2013.
  21. ^ "Actian Corporation and Pervasive Software Unite to Take Action on Big Data". Press release. April 11, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  22. ^ Christopher Calnan (April 12, 2013). "Software maker Pervasive completes merger with Actian". Austin Business Journal. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  23. ^ a b "Pervasive Documentation Library: Pervasive PSQL v11 SP2". Pervasive Software. April 2012.
  24. ^ "Zen Workgroup for Windows and PSQL Workgroup". Actian. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  25. ^ Beal, Vangie (February 13, 2012). "Pervasive Software Announces Hypervisor-Friendly PSQl Vx Server 11". ServerWatch.
  26. ^ "An Introduction to the Pervasive DataRush Framework". Retrieved 2009-08-21.
  27. ^ James Taylor (June 4, 2009). "First Look – Pervasive DataRush". James Taylor on Everything Decision Management. Retrieved November 22, 2013.
  28. ^ Wayne Eckerson (January 4, 2011). "The Next Wave in Big Data Analytics: Exploiting Multi-core Chips and SMP Machines". Bye Network blog. Retrieved November 23, 2013.
  29. ^ "Welcome to Pervasive DataRush". Original Pervasive DataRush web site. Archived from the original on December 8, 2006. Retrieved November 22, 2013.
  30. ^ Dan Woods (August 25, 2009). "Waking Up Multi-Core Processors". Forbes.com. Archived from the original on January 23, 2013. Retrieved November 22, 2013.

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