Use a SerDe to create a table

Specify ROW FORMAT DELIMITED and then use DDL statements to specify field delimiters, as in the following example. When you specify ROW FORMAT DELIMITED, Athena uses the LazySimpleSerDe by default.

ROW FORMAT DELIMITED 
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
ESCAPED BY '\\'
COLLECTION ITEMS TERMINATED BY '|'
MAP KEYS TERMINATED BY ':'

For examples of ROW FORMAT DELIMITED, see the following topics:

Lazy Simple SerDe for CSV, TSV, and custom-delimited files

Query Amazon CloudFront logs

Query Amazon EMR logs

Query Amazon VPC flow logs

Use CTAS and INSERT INTO for ETL and data analysis

Use ROW FORMAT SERDE to explicitly specify the type of SerDe that Athena should use when it reads and writes data to the table. The following example specifies the LazySimpleSerDe. To specify the delimiters, use WITH SERDEPROPERTIES. The properties specified by WITH SERDEPROPERTIES correspond to the separate statements (like FIELDS TERMINATED BY) in the ROW FORMAT DELIMITED example.

ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2.lazy.LazySimpleSerDe'
WITH SERDEPROPERTIES (
'serialization.format' = ',',
'field.delim' = ',',
'collection.delim' = '|',
'mapkey.delim' = ':',
'escape.delim' = '\\'
)

For examples of ROW FORMAT SERDE, see the following topics:

Avro SerDe

Grok SerDe

JSON SerDe libraries

Open CSV SerDe for processing CSV

Regex SerDe