So it wouldn't be possible to have a json string like this: { "name":"John", "age":53, "locations": [{ "street":"Rodeo Dr", "number":2300 }]}
And query all people who have a location with number = 2300? On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Michael Armbrust <mich...@databricks.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Corey Nolet <cjno...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Is it possible to select if, say, there was an addresses field that had a >> json array? >> > You can get the Nth item by "address".getItem(0). If you want to walk > through the whole array look at LATERAL VIEW EXPLODE in HiveQL > >