Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable is a Trade Paperback textbook by Martin Kleppmann, English language, published 2017 by O’reilly Media, Incorporated. This practical guide for software engineers and architects examines scalability, consistency, reliability, maintainability and trade-offs among relational databases, NoSQL datastores, stream and batch processors, message brokers, and distributed systems research.