<s>
The	O
company	O
sells	O
database	O
software	O
and	O
technology	O
,	O
cloud	B-Architecture
engineered	I-Architecture
systems	I-Architecture
,	O
and	O
data	B-General_Concept
integration	I-General_Concept
solutions	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
2010	O
:	O
Ingres	O
acquires	O
VectorWise	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ingres	O
was	O
developed	O
at	O
the	O
University	O
of	O
California	O
,	O
Berkeley	O
and	O
commercialized	O
by	O
Relational	O
Technology	O
Inc	O
.	O
After	O
a	O
course	O
of	O
name	O
changes	O
and	O
acquisitions	O
,	O
including	O
VectorWise	B-Application
BV	O
,	O
Versant	O
,	O
Pervasive	O
,	O
and	O
ParAccel	O
,	O
Actian	O
came	O
into	O
existence	O
as	O
a	O
multinational	O
software	O
firm	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
late	O
1980s	O
,	O
RTI	O
had	O
competition	O
in	O
the	O
database	B-Application
management	I-Application
system	I-Application
(	O
DBMS	O
)	O
market	O
,	O
including	O
Oracle	B-Application
Corporation	I-Application
(	O
which	O
had	O
started	O
with	O
the	O
similar	O
name	O
Relational	O
Software	O
Incorporated	O
)	O
,	O
Informix	O
Corporation	O
,	O
and	O
Sybase	B-Application
,	O
but	O
was	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
largest	O
DBMS	O
companies	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
He	O
promoted	O
open	B-Application
source	I-Application
software	I-Application
,	O
and	O
helped	O
form	O
Open	O
Source	O
for	O
America	O
in	O
2009	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ingres	O
announced	O
they	O
had	O
acquired	O
the	O
VectorWise	B-Application
technology	O
in	O
2010	O
,	O
which	O
had	O
spun	O
out	O
from	O
the	O
Centrum	O
Wiskunde	O
&	O
Informatica	O
(	O
CWI	O
,	O
the	O
Dutch	O
National	O
Research	O
Institute	O
for	O
Mathematics	O
and	O
Computer	O
Science	O
)	O
in	O
2008	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
February	O
2014	O
,	O
Forbes.com	O
listed	O
Actian	O
at	O
#5	O
in	O
its	O
"	O
Top	O
10	O
Big	B-Application
Data	I-Application
Pure-Plays	O
2014	O
"	O
citing	O
$138	O
million	O
in	O
Actian	O
revenue	O
for	O
2013	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
August	O
,	O
2016	O
,	O
it	O
was	O
reported	O
that	O
Actian	O
had	O
phased	O
out	O
its	O
products	O
promoted	O
for	O
big	B-Application
data	I-Application
,	O
including	O
the	O
former	O
ParAccel	O
,	O
VectorWise	B-Application
,	O
and	O
DataFlow	O
technology	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Actian	O
released	O
a	O
product	O
called	O
Avalanche	O
in	O
March	O
2019	O
for	O
use	O
on	O
the	O
Amazon	B-Application
Web	I-Application
Services	I-Application
(	O
AWS	B-Application
)	O
cloud	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Vectorwise	B-Application
originated	O
from	O
the	O
X100	O
research	O
project	O
carried	O
out	O
within	O
the	O
Centrum	O
Wiskunde	O
&	O
Informatica	O
(	O
CWI	O
,	O
the	O
Dutch	O
National	O
Research	O
Institute	O
for	O
Mathematics	O
and	O
Computer	O
Science	O
)	O
between	O
2003	O
and	O
2008	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Versant	O
Corporation	O
was	O
an	O
American-based	O
software	O
company	O
building	O
specialized	O
NoSQL	B-General_Concept
data	O
management	O
systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
late	O
2012	O
,	O
after	O
rejecting	O
an	O
offer	O
by	O
Unicom	O
Systems	O
,	O
Versant	O
announced	O
it	O
agreed	O
to	O
be	O
acquired	O
by	O
Actian	O
,	O
promoted	O
using	O
the	O
term	O
big	B-Application
data	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
ParAccel	O
was	O
a	O
California-based	O
software	O
company	O
that	O
developed	O
a	O
database	B-Application
management	I-Application
system	I-Application
designed	O
to	O
provide	O
advanced	O
analytics	O
for	O
business	B-General_Concept
intelligence	I-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Analysts	O
expected	O
Actian	O
to	O
market	O
ParAccel	O
for	O
larger	O
databases	B-Application
,	O
and	O
VectorWise	B-Application
for	O
moderately	O
sized	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Pervasive	O
Software	O
was	O
a	O
company	O
that	O
developed	O
software	O
including	O
database	B-Application
management	I-Application
systems	I-Application
and	O
extract	O
,	O
transform	O
and	O
load	O
tools	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Pervasive	B-Application
PSQL	I-Application
relational	B-Application
database	I-Application
management	I-Application
system	I-Application
was	O
its	O
primary	O
data	O
storage	O
product	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Avalanche	O
is	O
a	O
fully	O
managed	O
Cloud	O
Data	O
Platform	O
for	O
high	O
performance	O
operational	O
analytics	O
available	O
on	O
Google	B-General_Concept
Cloud	I-General_Concept
Platform	I-General_Concept
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Azure	I-Application
and	O
AWS	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
offers	O
a	O
fully	O
managed	O
hybrid	O
cloud	O
data	O
warehouse	O
service	O
designed	O
from	O
the	O
ground	O
up	O
to	O
deliver	O
high	O
performance	O
at	O
scale	O
on	O
commodity	O
infrastructure	O
(	O
running	O
on	O
Kubernetes	B-General_Concept
)	O
,	O
using	O
Vector	O
as	O
the	O
core	O
database	O
engine	O
(	O
a	O
vectorized	O
,	O
MPP	B-Operating_System
,	O
fully	O
ANSI	O
SQL	B-Language
compliant	O
RDBMS	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
also	O
offers	O
native	O
data	B-General_Concept
integration	I-General_Concept
capabilities	O
,	O
based	O
on	O
an	O
integrated	O
cloud	O
version	O
of	O
DataConnect	O
,	O
and	O
basic	O
data	O
visualization	O
capabilities	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Actian	O
Vector	O
(	O
formerly	O
known	O
as	O
Vectorwise	B-Application
or	O
VectorWise	B-Application
)	O
is	O
an	O
SQL	B-Language
relational	B-Application
database	I-Application
management	I-Application
system	I-Application
designed	O
for	O
high	O
performance	O
in	O
analytical	O
database	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
June	O
2014	O
,	O
Actian	O
Vortex	O
was	O
announced	O
-	O
clustered	O
MPP	B-Operating_System
version	O
of	O
Vector	O
,	O
working	O
in	O
Hadoop	B-Application
with	O
storage	O
in	O
HDFS	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Actian	O
Vortex	O
was	O
later	O
renamed	O
to	O
Actian	O
Vector	O
in	O
Hadoop	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ingres	O
is	O
a	O
proprietary	O
SQL	B-Language
relational	B-Application
database	I-Application
management	I-Application
system	I-Application
intended	O
to	O
support	O
large	O
commercial	O
and	O
government	O
applications	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
OpenROAD	B-Language
was	O
the	O
small-machine	O
offering	O
of	O
the	O
Ingres	O
database	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
suite	O
included	O
applications-by-forms	B-Application
(	O
ABF	O
)	O
,	O
an	O
early	O
4GL	B-Language
computer	O
programming	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
provided	O
an	O
ASCII	B-Protocol
form	O
painter	O
,	O
which	O
automatically	O
bound	O
form	O
fields	O
to	O
a	O
database	O
using	O
ABF	O
,	O
a	O
programming	O
language	O
,	O
with	O
embedded	O
SQL	B-Language
,	O
simplifying	O
the	O
task	O
of	O
making	O
a	O
"	O
CRUD	B-General_Concept
"	O
application	O
for	O
textual	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ABF	O
source	O
code	O
was	O
interpreted	O
into	O
a	O
3GL	O
language	O
(	O
C	B-Language
or	O
COBOL	B-Application
)	O
,	O
which	O
is	O
then	O
compiled	O
so	O
snippets	O
of	O
the	O
native	O
language	O
may	O
be	O
directly	O
embedded	O
in	O
the	O
ABF	O
code	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ABF	O
was	O
deprecated	B-General_Concept
by	O
OpenROAD	B-Language
in	O
the	O
early	O
nineties	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Several	O
other	O
database	O
vendors	O
marketed	O
comparable	O
4GLs	B-Language
at	O
around	O
the	O
same	O
time	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
Pick	B-Language
System	I-Language
Builder	I-Language
,	O
Clipper	B-Application
,	O
and	O
DBASE	B-Application
III	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
ABF	O
was	O
deprecated	B-General_Concept
by	O
the	O
OpenROAD	B-Language
business	O
unit	O
in	O
the	O
early	O
nineties	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Actian	B-Application
Zen	I-Application
(	O
PSQL	O
)	O
(	O
formerly	O
Btrieve	B-Application
,	O
later	O
named	O
Pervasive	B-Application
PSQL	I-Application
until	O
version	O
13	O
)	O
is	O
an	O
ACID-compliant	O
,	O
Zero-DBA	O
,	O
Embedded	O
,	O
Nano-footprint	O
,	O
Multi-Model	O
,	O
Multi-Platform	O
database	B-Application
management	I-Application
system	I-Application
(	O
DBMS	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
