[2] Pervasive Software was headquartered in Austin, Texas, and sold its products with partners in other countries.

[6] Pervasive started in 1982 as SoftCraft developing the database management system technology Btrieve.

PSQL implemented the atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability properties known as ACID using a relational database model.

[16] Based in Greenville, 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 the MapReduce programming model of Apache Hadoop.

[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.