This document discusses integrating MySQL and Hadoop to improve MySQL performance. It provides an overview of MySQL and Hadoop, including their usage by companies like Facebook and Twitter. The document then covers how Hadoop uses HDFS for distributed storage and MapReduce for parallel processing. It describes leveraging Hadoop to offload analytics and data warehousing from MySQL to improve performance for transactional workloads. Integrating the two can provide scalability beyond what MySQL alone can offer.