This document provides an introduction to MapReduce and Hadoop. It begins by explaining the problems MapReduce aims to address like parallel database operations and processing unknown data schemas. It then describes the MapReduce programming model including the map and reduce functions. The rest of the document details how MapReduce is implemented in Hadoop, including the job launching process, use of mappers and reducers, and reading/writing of data. It provides an example word count program and discusses aspects like locality, fault tolerance, and optimizations in MapReduce and Hadoop.