Claim: Pythian Services Inc is a privately held Canadian multinational corporation that provides data and cloud-related services for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Hadoop and Cassandra, that is based in  Ottawa, Ontario and was founded by Paul Vallée in 1997
Evidence: Pythian Services Inc., commonly known as Pythian, is a Canadian multinational corporation that provides data and cloud-related services. The company provides services for Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, Hadoop, Cassandra and other databases and their supporting infrastructure. The company is based in Ottawa, Ontario and has offices in New York City, London, United Kingdom, and Hyderabad, India. Founded by Paul Vallée in 1997, the company employs approximately 400 employees.