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My JSON is in the following format: {"ProfileId":11111111111,"CustomerId":111,"UserId":222,"DateString":"2011-01-01 14:24:52","Machine":"MyMachine","AppName":"TTT","Children":[{"Name":"Sk1","DurWithoutChildrenMs":21.23,"ParentId":11111111111,"IsSql":"True"},{"Name":"Sk2","DurWithoutChildrenMs":22.23,"ParentId":11111111111,"IsSql":"True"}]} {"ProfileId":22222222222,"CustomerId":222,"UserId":333,"DateString":"2011-01-01 11:24:52","Machine":"MyMachine","AppName":"TTT","Children":[{"Name":"Sk3","DurWithoutChildrenMs":11.23,"ParentId":22222222222,"IsSql":"True"},{"Name":"Sk2","DurWithoutChildrenMs":32.23,"ParentId":22222222222,"IsSql":"True"}]} I created a table with Array<Struct> as one of the columns for the children array. Create table BrokerLogsv2 (CustomerId int, UserId int, DateString string, AppName string, Machine string, ProfileId bigint, Children array<struct<Name:string, DurWithoutChildrenMs:float, IsSql: boolean, ParentId:bigint>> ) ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.openx.data.jsonserde.JsonSerDe' When I load the data, all the fields are populated except for the Children array. I am not sure if array<struct> is possible with json. If not can somebody please suggest some other way of loading the children array such that I can explode the children node and perform some aggregate functions on it. My plan is to do explode(children) using a lateral view? Thanks, Nac