IDEA Installation

KdbInsideBrains is a plugin for IntelliJ IDEA IDE by JetBrains. To be able to install the plugin, you have to download and install Ultimate or free Community Edition version of the IDE.

Plugin installation

It’s always a good idea to check the latest official docs how to install plugins in JetBrains IDEA: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/managing-plugins.html

One of the benefits of the official docs - you can select your IDEA version to get a correct version of the instruction in the top left corner of the page: how to choose JetBrains docs version

Search for KdbInsideBrains plugin in the marketplace and press ‘Install’ button: Plugin Name In Marketplace

The plugin is dynamic and no IDE restart is required here. As soon as initialization is done, you are ready to create your first project based on existing code and from scratch.

Move to the next section ‘Project Creation’ to get more details on how to start your first KDB project.