This document presents information on Big Data and its association with Hadoop. It discusses what Big Data is, defining it as too large and complex for traditional databases. It also covers the 3 V's of Big Data: volume, variety, and velocity. The document then introduces Hadoop as a tool for Big Data analytics, describing what Hadoop is and its key components and features like being scalable, reliable, and economical. MapReduce is discussed as Hadoop's programming model using mappers and reducers. Finally, the document concludes that Hadoop enables distributed, parallel processing of large data across inexpensive servers.