The document provides an introduction to MapReduce and how it can be used with Couchbase. It discusses that MapReduce is a programming model for processing large datasets in a distributed manner. It describes the basic MapReduce concepts of mapping input data to intermediate keys and values, and reducing to merge results for a given key. The document then explains how Couchbase Server implements these concepts and can be used for distributed computing applications with its flexible data model and built-in clustering.