Hey Sushant I looked at the CSV file. The rows are not JSON.
>From my limited understanding of what you are looking for , my suggestion >would be to have the input as rows of JSONs instead Example of the first row from your data set will be {"employee":{"name":"John Doe","salary":100000,"subordinates":[{"name":"Mary Smith"},{"name":"Todd Jones"}],"deductions":[{"type":"Federal Taxes","amount":0.2},{"type":"State Taxes","amount":0.05},{"type":"Insurance","amount":0.1}],"address":{"street":"1 Michigan Ave.","city":"Chicago","state":"IL","zip":60600}}} If u r running Ubuntu / Mac U can see the JSON beautified by following command cat your_json_file | python -m json.tool | less Once u have this in this format , I would recommend u use JSON-SERDE to define the hive table https://github.com/rcongiu/Hive-JSON-Serde U can see some JSON serde examples here http://bigdatalatte.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/denormalizing-json-arrays-in-hive/ http://thornydev.blogspot.com/2013/07/querying-json-records-via-hive.html { "employee": { "name": "John Doe", "salary": 100000, "subordinates": [ { "name": "Mary Smith" }, { "name": "Todd Jones" } ], "deductions": [ { "type": "Federal Taxes", "amount": 0.2 }, { "type": "State Taxes", "amount": 0.05 }, { "type": "Insurance", "amount": 0.1 } ], "address": { "street": "1 Michigan Ave.", "city": "Chicago", "state": "IL", "zip": 60600 } } } Thanks Warm Regards sanjay From: Nitin Pawar <nitinpawar...@gmail.com<mailto:nitinpawar...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: "user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>" <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at 11:34 PM To: "user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>" <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Subject: Re: Load CSV files with embedded map and arrays to Hive Hey sorry .. got stuck with work. I will take a look today On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Sushant Prusty <sushan...@gmx.com<mailto:sushan...@gmx.com>> wrote: Hi Nitin, Hope you have received the dataset. If you have any further requirement, please feel free to contact. Will appreciate your help. Regards, Sushant On Tuesday 19 August 2014 02:33 PM, Nitin Pawar wrote: can you give an example of your dataset? On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Sushant Prusty <sushan...@gmx.com<mailto:sushan...@gmx.com>> wrote: Pl let me know how I can load a CSV file with embedded map and arrays data into Hive. Regards, Sushant -- Nitin Pawar -- Warm regards, Sushant Prusty -- Nitin Pawar