Installing the XBRL Database
About the XBRL Database
Starting with version 2.6.12 of Reporting Standard tools, XBRLizer and XBRLviewer products can:
- Store XBRL reports in an XBRL Database
- Export XBRL reports to EXCEL using formulas that obtains the information from the XBRL Database
This feature allows business users to easily substitute parameters for the formulas generated and create dynamic Excel sheets that obtains data from the XBRL Database for whatever purposes the user wants to. For example:
- Comparing XBRL reports from multiple companies
- Calculating ratios from the reported values and comparing ratios across multiple companies
- Preparing the excel spreadsheet for multiple periods of time even if the data has still not arrived to the XBRL Database
- Preparing the excel spreadsheet for multiple companies
- etc.
In order to allow this features to work you need to configure first a database to work with.
Supported Databases
Reporting Standard XBRL API, on release 2.8.X supports the following database engines:
- Oracle, from version 10i
- PostgreSQL, from version 8.2
- SQL Server, from version 2005
- IBM DB2, from version 10.5
The installation of the database can be either on the same computer where the tools are installed or in a different server over the network. We don't recommend our users to relay on connections over the Internet as this may slow down performance.
Installation walkthrough
Click on the page depending on the database engine you want to install the XBRL database on:
