The document discusses Apache Hadoop, an open-source Java software framework used for storing and processing large data sets across clusters of commodity machines using HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System) and MapReduce. HDFS ensures reliable, scalable, and fault-tolerant storage, while MapReduce enables efficient data processing through a model inspired by functional programming. The document highlights the architecture of HDFS, its limitations, and the responsibilities of different components, such as namenodes and datanodes, as well as the task management in MapReduce jobs.