dbf files to store feature attribute data.įile types | Find file converter | Software | Articles | FAQs | Privacy policy | About us | RSS For example, the shapefile format developed by ESRI for spatial data in a geographic information system uses. Together these are informally referred to as xBase.Ī major legacy of dBase is its dbf file format, which has been adopted in a number of other applications. These included FoxPro (now Visual FoxPro), Arago, Force, dbFast, dbXL, Quicksilver, Clipper, Xbase++, FlagShip, Recital, CodeBase, MultiBase and Harbour/xHarbour. Starting in the mid 1980s many other companies produced their own dialects or variations on the product and language. changed its name to dataBased Intelligence, Inc.
Ashton-Tate was bought by Borland in 1991, which sold the rights to the product line in 1999 to the newly-formed dBase Inc. dBase was slow to transition successfully to Microsoft Windows and gradually lost market share to competitors such as Paradox, Clipper, FoxPro, and Microsoft Access.
The original program, which used the DBF file extension for its database, was dBAse.ĭBase was the first widely used database management system (DBMS) for microcomputers, published by Ashton-Tate for CP/M, and later on the Apple II, Apple Macintosh, UNIX, VMS, and IBM PC under DOS where it became one of the best-selling software titles for a number of years. File extension dbf is traditionally used for database file by many database applications.
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