RegexSerDe is a part of Hive SerDe library used for serializing and deserializing data structures efficiently and generic. Hive uses the SerDe interface for IO. RegexSerDe is short for Regular Expression Serializer/Deserializer. This tag should be used for questions related RegexSerDe usage and development.
RegexSerDe uses regular expression (regex) to serialize/deserialize. It can deserialize the data using regex and extracts groups as columns. It can also serialize the row object using a format string. RegexSerDe is as much a part of the standard Hive distribution as the other SerDes currently in hive-serde. The Hive SerDe library is in org.apache.hadoop.hive.serde2