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| <p>As of version 0.4, HCatalog uses Hive's SerDe class to serialize and deserialize data. SerDes are provided for RCFile, CSV text, JSON text, and SequenceFile formats.</p> |
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| <p>Users can write SerDes for custom formats using the instructions at <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/SerDe/">https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/SerDe</a>.</p> |
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