I have tried the JSON SerDe that Amazon provides for EMR instance and works great if you need to address/map JSON dictionary fields to columns. However I wasn\'t been able t
I was struggling with the same problem till I found this serde on github -
https://github.com/rcongiu/Hive-JSON-Serde
Just include it using the 'add jar' command once you start hive and it works like a charm.