This document proposes mechanisms to improve the efficiency of the Hadoop distributed file system and MapReduce framework. It suggests using locality-sensitive hashing to colocate related files on the same data nodes, which would improve data locality. It also proposes implementing a cache to store the results of MapReduce tasks, so that duplicate computations can be avoided when the same task is run again on the same data. Implementing these mechanisms could help speed up execution times in Hadoop by reducing unnecessary data transmission and repetitive task executions.