Pervasive Software was headquartered inAustin, Texas, and sold its products with partners in other countries.The company is involved incloud computing through DataSolutions and its DataCloud offering[3] along with its long-standing relationship withsalesforce.com.[4] It was acquired byActian Corp.[5] in April 2013.[6]
Pervasive started in 1982 asSoftCraft developing thedatabase management system technologyBtrieve. Acquired byNovell in 1987,[7] in January 1994 Pervasive spun out as Btrieve Technologies. The company name was changed to Pervasive Software in June 1996. Theirinitial 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 theNasdaq exchange under symbol PVSW.[8]Its database product was announced in 1999 asPervasive.SQL version 7,[10] and later renamed PSQL. PSQL implemented theatomicity,consistency,isolation,durability properties known asACID using arelational database model.
In 1998, Pervasive acquired Canadian web tools developer EveryWare Development for CA$16,232,00, shutting down EveryWare's Mac-only database serverButler SQL[11] and continuing support for their Tango web development environment and Bolero website tracking software.[12] Pervasive sold the Tango technology to Australian company Witango in 2001.[13]
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.[14] Data Junction, founded in 1984, was a privately held company also headquartered in Austin. The merger closed in December 2003.[15]
Pervasive also acquiredbusiness-to-business data interchange service Channelinx in August 2009.[16] Based inGreenville, South Carolina, it continued operating under the name Pervasive Business Xchange.[17][18]In February 2011, Pervasive announced version 5 of DataRush, which included integration with theMapReduce programming model ofApache Hadoop.[19][20]
In 2013, Pervasive Software was acquired byActian Corporation for $161.9 million.[21] Actian had initially made offers in August 2012 starting at $154 million 30% higher than its shares traded at the time,[22] and raised its price in November. Pervasive agreed to the deal in January 2013,[23] and it closed in April.[24][25]
Pervasive PSQL, also known as Pervasive.PSQL or simply PSQL (originallyBtrieve) is a DBMS for embedded applications. There were four editions of Pervasive PSQL:[26] PSQL Client, PSQL Workgroup, PSQL Server, and PSQL Vx Server.
PSQL Client is designed for use with PSQL Server and PSQL Vx Server in a client-server network.[citation needed]
PSQL Workgroup edition is intended for single- and multi-engine configurations with up to five users.[27]
PSQL Server edition is intended for configurations that have at minimum tenconcurrent connections and it is scalable up to thousands of concurrent network users in client-server network andweb-based applications on theenterprise level.[26]
PSQL Vx Server runs underhypervisors in aVM environment. It is designed for customers “who need support for highly virtualized environments enabling live migration, fault tolerance, high availability and cloud computing.”[28]
