The document discusses Hadoop, an open-source software framework for distributed storage and processing of large datasets across clusters of commodity hardware. It describes Hadoop's core components - the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) for scalable data storage, and MapReduce for distributed processing of large datasets in parallel. Typical problems suited for Hadoop involve complex data from multiple sources that need to be consolidated, stored inexpensively at scale, and processed in parallel across the cluster.