Ability Database

Ability Database (ADB) is the native format of the Database program in the Ability Office suite, though this program also supports the Microsoft Access (MDB) format.

Ability Database is a relational database supporting SQL queries, similar to a number of other database engines. The presence of the string "Standard Jet DB" in the file headers indicates the possibility that this format is derived from the Jet format on which MS Access was also based.

Text strings appear, as in the other Ability Office programs, to be stored in 16 bit Unicode, perhaps UTF-16.

Identification
Files appear to begin with the hex bytes, which includes the ASCII string "Standard Jet DB".

Sample files

 * TESTDB.ADB - Test database

Other links

 * Wikipedia article on Ability Office
 * Ability Software site