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removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . december 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message it has been suggested that this article be merged into versant object database . discuss proposed since august 2016 . versant corporation type subsidiary industry software founded 1988 headquarters redwood city california usa products object database revenue 25 3 million usd 2008 1 parent actian website www.versant.com versant corporation was an american based software company building specialized nosql data management systems . versant products are deployed in industries including telecommunications defense life sciences biomedical transportation finance and online gaming . versant was founded in fremont california usa in 1988 . it was headquartered in redwood city california . engineering teams were located in hamburg germany and redwood city . versant offers nosql object database technologies including versant jpa versant object database fastobjects and the open source database db4o . contents 1 history 2 products 3 applications 4 references 5 external links history edit the company was founded by kee ong in august 1988 as object sciences corporation . among the first employees were ceo michael seashols and kernel engineers hong tai chou stephen au yeung and c. p. chou . citation needed ong previously worked with the open source relational database management system ingres . around this time object oriented programming oo became popular and the company used research done at the university of wisconsin 2 for a commercial database system to complement oo languages . in early 1990 the company was renamed versant object technology . in april 1993 david banks took over as ceo . 3 on july 18 1996 versant had their initial public offering ipo on the nasdaq stock exchange and traded under the symbol vsnt . 4 the company raised 14.9 million from the ipo and was based in menlo park california at the time but moved to fremont california in 1997 . 4 in january 1998 nick ordon succeeded banks as ceo . 5 on july 15 1998 the company was renamed again to versant corporation . 6 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 . in 2005 jochen witte president of poet software took over as ceo of versant corporation . in august 2005 the common stock had a 1 for 10 reverse stock split . on december 1 2008 versant acquired the assets of the database software business of servo software inc. formerly named db4objects inc. . it developed the open source embedded database technology db4o . 1 6 the original implementation of versant was targeted at c c and smalltalk users . in 1995 versant introduced support for the java programming language and then in 2009 for c and the . net platform . in 2012 versant introduced versant jpa a java persistence api 2.0 compliant interface for its object database with a technical preview of an analytics product including apache hadoop support . in late 2012 after rejecting an offer by unicom systems inc. versant corporation announced it was being acquired by actian corporation the commercial developer of ingres and the relational database vectorwise . the acquisition was promoted using the marketing term big data . 7 it closed in december for an estimated 37 million . 8 products edit versant markets three commercial object oriented database management systems oodbms versant jpa versant object database and versant fastobjects . in addition versant offers the open source database db4o . versant jpa is a jpa 2.0 compliant interface for its object database that includes a technical preview of an analytics platform including hadoop support . 9 it is available as a server and sdk for use with windows and linux operating systems . versant object database is used primarily for java . net and c applications especially those with high concurrency and performance requirements and very large data sets . the versant object database is available for use with the operating systems windows linux solaris hp ux and aix and can be integrated in java . net or c programs . unlike in a relational database management system rdbms e.g. oracle complex logical models can be directly stored read and modeled as domain objects without having to model them first in relational tables . 10 versant fastobjects is a developer friendly object oriented alternative to a relational database for . net persistence . 11 db4o is an open source embedded object database for java and . net . db4o is coded in java and translated to c by an open source tool called sharpen . 12 applications edit versant markets products for complex data models ingesting large amount of data and large numbers of concurrent users . versant is found in applications within industries where those characteristics come into play global trading platforms for the world s largest stock exchanges ; network management for the world s largest telecommunications providers ; intelligence analytics for defense agencies ; reservation systems for the largest airline hotel companies ; risk management analytics for banking and transportation organizations ; massive multi player gaming systems ; network security and fraud detection ; local number portability ; advanced simulations ; and social networking . references edit this article includes a list of references but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations . january 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message a b revenues of 6.0 million for q4 2008 versant acquires db4objects database business share repurchase program announced . press release . december 4 2008 . archived from the original on december 21 2008 . retrieved december 8 2013 . h. t. chou david j. dewitt randy h. katz and anthony c. klug october 1985 . design and implementation of the wisconsin storage system . software practice & experience . 15 943 962 . doi 10.1002 spe .4380151003 . cs1 maint uses authors parameter link versant object technology april 30 1997 . proxy statement . schedule 14a . us securities and exchange commission . retrieved december 4 2013 . a b versant object technology march 28 1997 . annual report for the fiscal year ending december 31 1996 . form 10 ksb . us securities and exchange commission . retrieved december 4 2013 . versant object technology april 30 1998 . proxy statement . schedule 14a . us securities and exchange commission . retrieved december 4 2013 . a b versant corporation january 14 2009 . annual report for the fiscal year ended october 31 2008 . form 10 k. us securities and exchange commission . retrieved december 4 2013 . giving thanks for versant and actian . blog . enterprise strategy group . november 26 2012 . retrieved december 3 2013 . doug henschen february 1 2013 . actian builds mini big data empire . information week . retrieved december 3 2013 . 3 new versant jpa delivers multiple nosql analytics dr. dobb s journal . october 28 2012 . 4 http www.agiledata.org essays relationaldatabases.html beyondrelationaldatabases agiledata.org . 5 fastobjects tutorial youtube . january 9 2012 . 6 db4o website 1 external links edit versant corporation retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title versant corporation & oldid 738958802 categories software companies based in the san francisco bay areasoftware companies established in 19881988 establishments in californiacompanies based in redwood city californiahidden categories cs1 maint uses authors parameterarticles with topics of unclear notability from december 2008all articles with topics of unclear notabilityarticles needing additional references from december 2008all articles needing additional 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