Versant Corporation was an American-based software company building specialized NoSQL data management systems.

It was noted in 2005 that the market share for object oriented databases held by Versant was "very small" compared to IBM and Oracle.

In early 1990 the company was renamed “Versant Object Technology.” In April 1993 David Banks took over as CEO.

[5] On July 18, 1996 Versant had their initial public offering (IPO) on the NASDAQ stock exchange and traded under the symbol VSNT.

[8] In the 1990s, Versant went through a period where most of their R&D costs were spent on "maintaining and upgrading existing product releases" across a LARGE number of operating systems and hardware.

[9] In March 2004, Versant acquired Poet Software GmbH, a European-focused company targeting the Windows product market which had traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.