The document provides an overview of Hadoop, a Java framework used for storing and processing large data sets through a cluster of commodity hardware using the MapReduce programming model. Key components of Hadoop include MapReduce, HDFS, YARN, and Hadoop Common. The document details the workings of Map and Reduce tasks, explaining data processing through key-value pairs, as well as the roles of components like RecordReader, Combiner, and Partitioner in the data processing workflow.
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