This document discusses Apache Hadoop and how it provides solutions for big data problems through MapReduce and HDFS. It outlines key issues like hardware failure and combining data when implementing parallelism for big data storage and analysis. Hadoop overcomes these issues using HDFS for reliable shared storage and MapReduce for reliable analysis through processing data in parallel using keys and values. MapReduce is a batch query processor that is already used by companies to handle large datasets, providing an alternative to traditional RDBMS for big data applications.