What is the difference between .dbf and .csv?
- Extension
- .dbf
- .csv
- Format
- Binary
- Text
- Category
- Database
- Developer
- Developer
- dBASE
- Microsoft
- Description
- A DBF (Database File) is a file format that originated with the dBASE database management system, which was one of the first widely used database systems in the 1980s. The format has since been adopted and supported by other database and software applications for storing structured data in a tabular form. A DBF file typically contains a header, which defines the structure of the database, including information about fields (columns) such as name, type, and size, followed by records (rows).
- A CSV file is a comma separated values file commonly used by spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice Calc. It contains plain text data sets separated by commas with each new line in the CSV file representing a new database row and each database row consisting of one or more fields separated by a comma. CSV files are often opened by spreadsheet programs to be organized into cells or used for transferring data between databases.
- MIME Type
- application/x-dbase
- text/csv
- Sample
- sample.csv
- Wikipedia
- .dbf on Wikipedia
- .csv on Wikipedia