The document discusses different types of joins that can be performed in MapReduce including map-side joins and reduce-side joins. Map-side joins include replicated joins, where a small dataset is copied to each node and joined with the larger dataset, and semi-joins, where an initial large dataset is filtered before the join. Reduce-side joins, also called repartition joins, involve joining datasets in the reduce phase by setting the join key as the map output key so datasets are colocated for joining. Inequality joins are difficult to implement in MapReduce's key-equality paradigm.