The document discusses Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) processes and how they are used with Hadoop. ETL involves extracting data from source systems, cleaning and transforming the data, and loading it into a destination database. Traditional ETL tools have limitations for big data analytics. Hadoop provides an alternative ETL architecture using tools like Apache Sqoop and Apache Flume that can handle large volumes of data in a distributed, scalable manner by extracting data from relational databases and loading it into Hadoop for processing.