The document provides an overview of Apache Hadoop, an open-source software framework for distributed storage and processing of large datasets across clusters of commodity hardware. It discusses how Hadoop uses the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and MapReduce programming model to reliably store and process extremely large amounts of data in a distributed manner. The presentation also outlines some of the core Hadoop components, common use cases, and ecosystem tools like Hive, HBase, Pig and ZooKeeper.