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Data Serialization - AVRO in Hive

Avro-backed tables:

• starting in Hive 0.14, could be defined a storage format (ie STORED AS AVRO)
• before Hive 0.14, should be created as a serde

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Documentation / Reference

• https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/AvroSerDe