How to create simple Athena table from simple JSON data?

Question

I have simple JSON log data like:

```
{ 
  "referer":"https://example.org",
  "data": {
    "datum1": "value1",
    "datum2":"value2",
    "ts":2381738917239
  }
}
```
How do I get that stuff *easily* in the Athena so I can type:  
`select * from mytable where data.ts > '2022-06-01 and datum1 = 'filter'`

The documention is really comprehensive (spent a couple of hours browsing it), but I am really not that interesting about knowing all the SerDe details, I just need to get this simple thing going and preferrably fast. Like in Snowflake (took a minute or two to do it).

BR, Joni

Answer

I was able to get a crawler to crawl the data and write a quick query in Athena to be able to accomplish your use case effectively. Please take a look and try it out. If you have any questions, please let me know.

**Step 1:** I mocked up data for 10 different dates and moved the data in S3
![Enter image description here](/media/postImages/original/IMkV8ZWo6USZGeKm6UyWQjmQ)
**Step 2:** I created a crawler to crawl the S3 location and ran the crawler. It created a table with 2 columns referer and data.
**Step 3:** I ran the athena query below to get the dates > 9/4/2022

```
SELECT referer, data.datum2, data.ts, data.datum1, date_format(from_unixtime(data.ts),'%Y-%m-%d') FROM "raw_db"."nested_json" 
where date_format(from_unixtime(data.ts),'%Y-%m-%d') > '2022-09-04'
limit 10;
```
![Enter image description here](/media/postImages/original/IM9Ypq7FaXQGCB5Z8VLuHP9A)

How to create simple Athena table from simple JSON data?

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