You can already extract fields from json data using Hive UDFs. We have an intern working on on better native support this summer. We will be sure to post updates once there is a working prototype.
Michael On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Nick Chammas <nicholas.cham...@gmail.com>wrote: > The Apache Drill <http://incubator.apache.org/drill/> home page has an > interesting heading: "Liberate Nested Data". > > Is there any current or planned functionality in Spark SQL or Shark to > enable SQL-like querying of complex JSON? > > Nick > > > ------------------------------ > View this message in context: Using Spark to analyze complex > JSON<http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Using-Spark-to-analyze-complex-JSON-tp6146.html> > Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list > archive<http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/>at Nabble.com. >
