Pervasive Software Explained

Pervasive Software Inc.
Foundation:1994
Defunct:2013
Fate:Acquired by Actian
Location:Austin, Texas
Industry:Software, RDBMS, Data integration
Products:Pervasive Data Integrator
Pervasive DataRush
Pervasive Data Profiler
Pervasive PSQL
Revenue:$47.2 million USD (Fiscal 2010)[1]

Pervasive Software was a company that developed software including database management systems and extract, transform and load tools. Pervasive Data Integrator and Pervasive Data Profiler are integration products, and the Pervasive PSQL 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 cloud computing through DataSolutions and its DataCloud offering[3] along with its long-standing relationship with 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.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 dataflow parallel programming framework in the Java programming language.[26] [27] [28] DataRush was announced in December 2006[29] and shipped in 2009.[30]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Pervasive Software Reports Results for its Fourth Quarter of Fiscal Year 2010 . 2010-07-27.
  2. Web site: Pervasive Industry Solutions . 2009-08-21.
  3. Web site: Cloud Integration . 2009-08-21.
  4. Web site: Salesforce Integration . 2009-08-21.
  5. Web site: Actian Corp.
  6. News: Software maker Pervasive completes merger with Actian . Christopher Calnan . Austin Business Journal . April 12, 2013 . January 16, 2014 .
  7. Book: Surfing the High Tech Wave: A History of Novell 1980–1990 . Roger Bourke White . 123–124 . AuthorHouse . 2012 . 9781452023045 . November 24, 2013 .
  8. Web site: Prospectus . Form S-1/A . Pervasive Software . September 26, 1997 . US Securities and Exchange Commission . November 21, 2013 .
  9. News: Pervasive Living Up to Its Name at 25 . P J Connolly . March 15, 2007 . Software Development Times . November 21, 2013 .
  10. News: Pervasive.SQL simplifies development . Tim Fielden . January 18, 1999 . Info World . https://web.archive.org/web/19990830152239/http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?%2F99%2F03%2Frpersqla.dat.htm . August 30, 1999 . November 23, 2013 . dead .
  11. News: Pervasive buying Data Junction: Database, integration vendors combine . Paul Krill . August 11, 2003 . Info World . November 23, 2013 .
  12. News: Pervasive completes acquisition of Data Junction; Announces new organizational structure optimized for growth . Press release . December 8, 2003 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20040202055037/http://www.pervasive.com/company/press/releases_show.asp?cid=490 . February 2, 2004 . November 21, 2013 .
  13. News: Pervasive Software Completes Acquisition of ChanneLinx Assets . August 3, 2009 . Press release . Pervasive Software . https://web.archive.org/web/20090831180334/http://www.pervasivedb.com/Corporate/press/Pages/PervasiveSoftwareCompletesAcquisitionofChanneLinxAssets.aspx . August 31, 2009 . November 21, 2013 .
  14. Web site: About Us . ChannelLinx web site . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090816214740/http://www.channelinx.com/about_us.html . August 16, 2009 . November 21, 2013 .
  15. Web site: Pervasive Business Xchange . dead . Commercial web site . https://web.archive.org/web/20100411220557/http://www.pervasivebusinessxchange.com/Pages/Home.aspx . April 11, 2010 . November 21, 2013 .
  16. News: Pervasive's parallel development API paired with Hadoop MapReduce . Paul Krill . February 1, 2011. Info World . November 24, 2013 .
  17. News: Dataflow Programming: A Scalable Data-Centric Approach to Parallelism . Jim Falgout . March 1, 2011 . Java Developer's Journal . November 24, 2013 .
  18. News: 2013-01-29. Pervasive Software to be acquired by Actian for $161.9 million. en. Reuters. 2020-07-22.
  19. News: Pervasive Software to solicit potential bids . Sarah Drake . Austin Business Journal . September 13, 2012 . December 9, 2013 .
  20. News: Pervasive Software to be acquired by Actian for $161.9 million . Chicago Tribune . Reuters . January 28, 2013 . November 21, 2013 .
  21. Web site: Actian Corporation and Pervasive Software Unite to Take Action on Big Data . Press release . April 11, 2013 . November 23, 2013 .
  22. News: Software maker Pervasive completes merger with Actian . Christopher Calnan . Austin Business Journal . April 12, 2013 . November 23, 2013 .
  23. Web site: Pervasive Documentation Library: Pervasive PSQL v11 SP2. Pervasive Software. April 2012.
  24. Web site: Zen Workgroup for Windows and PSQL Workgroup . Actian . 8 October 2020 .
  25. Web site: Pervasive Software Announces Hypervisor-Friendly PSQl Vx Server 11. ServerWatch. Beal, Vangie. February 13, 2012.
  26. Web site: An Introduction to the Pervasive DataRush Framework . 2009-08-21.
  27. Web site: First Look – Pervasive DataRush . June 4, 2009 . James Taylor on Everything Decision Management . James Taylor . November 22, 2013 .
  28. Web site: The Next Wave in Big Data Analytics: Exploiting Multi-core Chips and SMP Machines . Wayne Eckerson . Bye Network blog . January 4, 2011 . November 23, 2013 .
  29. Web site: Welcome to Pervasive DataRush . Original Pervasive DataRush web site . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061208123617/http://www.pervasivedatarush.com/ . December 8, 2006 . November 22, 2013 .
  30. News: Waking Up Multi-Core Processors . Forbes.com . Dan Woods . August 25, 2009 . live . https://archive.today/20130123064700/http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/24/pervasive-software-multicore-technology-cio-network-processors.html . January 23, 2013 . November 22, 2013 .

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