SerDe is short for Serializer/Deserializer. Hive uses the SerDe interface for IO.
A SerDe allows Hive to read in data from a table, and write it back out to HDFS in any custom format. There are three types of SerDe :- 1.built-in 2.third party 3.custom serde
built-in :- Avro, ORC, RegEx thrift, parquet, CSV (search net for descp)
third-party :- for JSON files provided by amazon.
custom :- can write your own serde with help using developer guide.