HDB Converter

Extract text from HDB files


Drop or upload your .HDB file
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How to extract text from your HDB file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your HDB file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert HDB to another file type

To convert your HDB file to another format, you need Tridium Niagara & Creative Sound Blaster or other Database software.

Convert a file to HDB

To convert other file formats to the "Historical Data Log" file type, you need software like Tridium Niagara & Creative Sound Blaster or a similar tool.


About HDB files

The .HDB extension is a "container of mystery" that serves three completely different industries, making it impossible to open without knowing its origin.

  1. Niagara Framework History Database: Created by Tridium for industrial automation, these files store historical trends (temperature, energy usage) from smart buildings. They are highly efficient but proprietary silos; you cannot open them directly in Excel. Users typically need to export them to CSV or XLSX via the Niagara Workbench to analyze the data.
  2. Sound Blaster Audio Bank: A legacy format from Creative Technology. These act as header databases for instrument sample libraries. Modern media players like VLC cannot play them. Musicians must convert them to WAV or SF2 (SoundFont) to access the vintage sounds.
  3. Genealogy & ERP Databases: Software like Legacy Family Tree and HansaWorld use HDB files to store critical records. These are often disguised Microsoft Access or proprietary SQL databases. To share this family history or financial data, users must convert the internal records to GEDCOM (for genealogy) or PDF.

Convert.Guru analyzes your HDB file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted ZIP, JPG, CVD, ANKI and DHT files.


FAQ

If you want to convert HDB file to DB, SQLITE, SQLITE3, MDB, ACCDB, DBF, ODB, FDB, GDB, MYD, FRM or SQL, you can use Tridium Niagara & Creative Sound Blaster or similar software from the "Database Storage & Audio Banks" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert NDF, SQLITE3, BAK, RDB, SQL, DB4, MDF, MDB, LDF, DB, DB3 or SQLITE files to HDB, try Tridium Niagara & Creative Sound Blaster or another comparable tool in the "Database Storage & Audio Banks" category.



The HDB Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our HDB converter.