Pervasive Software was a company that developed

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including

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and extract, transform and load tools. Pervasive Data Integrator and Pervasive Data Profiler are integration products, and the

Pervasive PSQL Actian Zen (named Pervasive PSQL before version 13) is an ACID-compliant database management system (DBMS) developed by Pervasive Software. It is optimized for embedding in applications and used in several different types of packaged software ap ...

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is its primary data storage product. These embeddable data management products deliver integration between corporate data, third-party applications and custom software. Pervasive Software was headquartered in

Austin, Texas Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the county seat, seat and largest city of Travis County, Texas, Travis County, with portions extending into Hays County, Texas, Hays and Williamson County, Texas, Williamson co ...

, and sold its products with partners in other countries. The company is involved in

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through DataSolutions and its DataCloud offering along with its long-standing relationship with

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. It was acquired by Actian Corp. in April 2013.

History

Pervasive started in 1982 as SoftCraft developing the

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technology

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. Acquired by

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in 1987, in January 1994 Pervasive spun out as Btrieve Technologies. The company name was changed to Pervasive Software in June 1996. Their

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in 1997 raised $18.6 million. 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). Its shares were listed on the

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exchange under symbol PVSW. Its database product was announced in 1999 as Pervasive.SQL version 7, and later renamed PSQL. PSQL implemented the atomicity,

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, isolation,

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properties known as ACID using a

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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. Data Junction, founded in 1984, was a privately held company also headquartered in Austin. The merger closed in December 2003. Pervasive also acquired

business-to-business Business-to-business (B2B or, in some countries, BtoB) is a situation where one business makes a commercial transaction with another. This typically occurs when: * A business is sourcing materials for their production process for output (e.g., a ...

data interchange service Channelinx in August 2009. Based in Greenville, South Carolina, it continued operating under the name Pervasive Business Xchange. In February 2011, Pervasive announced version 5 of DataRush, which included integration with the

MapReduce MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating big data sets with a parallel, distributed algorithm on a cluster. A MapReduce program is composed of a ''map'' procedure, which performs filteri ...

programming model of Apache Hadoop. In 2013, Pervasive Software was acquired by

Actian Actian is a computer software company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California that provides data management software. In July 2018, Actian was acquired by HCL Technologies and Sumeru Equity Partners for $330 million. On December 31, 2021, HCL Tec ...

Corporation for $161.9 million. Actian had initially made offers in August 2012 starting at $154 million 30% higher than its shares traded at the time, and raised its price in November. Pervasive agreed to the deal in January 2013, and it closed in April.

Products

DataRush is a

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parallel programming Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or processes are carried out simultaneously. Large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which can then be solved at the same time. There are several different f ...

framework in the

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. DataRush was announced in December 2006 and shipped in 2009.

References

External links

* - company site * {{Official , 1=http://www.actian.com/ - parent company site Extract, transform, load tools Development software companies Data warehousing products Software companies based in Texas Companies based in Austin, Texas American companies established in 1994 Software companies of the United States