This document provides an overview of big data and Hadoop. It defines big data as high-volume, high-velocity, and high-variety data that requires new techniques to capture value. Hadoop is introduced as an open-source framework for distributed storage and processing of large datasets across clusters of computers. Key components of Hadoop include HDFS for storage and MapReduce for parallel processing. Benefits of Hadoop are its ability to handle large amounts of structured and unstructured data quickly and cost-effectively at large scales.