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Hive vs Jira comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

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Categories and Ranking

Hive
Ranking in Project Management Software
38th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Jira
Ranking in Project Management Software
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
278
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (1st), Application Requirements Management (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2026, in the Project Management Software category, the mindshare of Hive is 0.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jira is 3.8%, down from 8.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Project Management Software Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Jira3.8%
Hive0.6%
Other95.6%
Project Management Software
 

Featured Reviews

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Sr Manager at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
Provides efficiency in metadata storage and implementation
Many applications perform similarly to Hive, offering metadata implementations. I'm looking into their advancements, such as aggregated joins and MBT joins. Hive's virtual implementations are evolving, and tools like Snowflake offer specific use case advancements. In future releases, the Bloomfilter function should be a part of Hive. Windowing functions should also be there. I would also like to see AI implementation.
Akhil Viswam - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Agile workflows have streamlined sprint planning and tracking for faster feature delivery
Jira has a very good interface and it is very easy to manage sprints, tasks, and epics. The main feature is the hierarchy, as features can be converted into epics and topics, allowing bigger tasks to be partitioned into smaller ones. The hierarchy feature in Jira helps the team significantly compared to other tools that have been used, such as Trello, which is mainly useful only for a waterfall model. For modern Agile practices, Jira is the most adapted tool in the industry. Another valuable feature is that Jira APIs have been used for data science projects to analyze tasks and get insights. This has also been very helpful in the project.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It excels in handling diverse data formats and is particularly beneficial for constructing a data lake for companies with mixed data types, such as videos and structured data."
"It is a good solution for us when it comes to metadata implementation. It's beneficial to have metadata stored in Hive."
"This product provides you a good view of the status of your projects."
"Jira as a structure has Confluence for documentation, and for what it is offering it is a strong suit with Atlassian."
"The customization and tailoring of the workflows have proven to be very useful."
"I like that all of the team members on an agile team can use it. No one is in a separate application."
"I was able to do real-time reports myself without having to wait for data import."
"It is a stable solution, and we have had no issues with stability."
"The ordinary user has an interface that is very clear."
"It's a Scrum tool, so it's very easy to use."
 

Cons

"In future releases, I would also like to see AI implementation."
"For smaller datasets, it may not be as suitable, and its performance might not be optimal."
"The reporting tool and the approval tool need work."
"The dashboard reports can be improved. Its dashboard reports are good, but you cannot have complex reports. They are currently very basic. For instance, we can only choose two columns for a dashboard, so it is not friendly enough."
"We would like to see integration between Tempo and Jira."
"Having more seamless integration with Confluence would really help us track our product management activity and other product details in one place."
"I manage the progress of the stories in an Excel chart with dates on work progress or thing to do. I don't like the progress or the stage changing from the stories in Jira."
"A lot of features, such as time tracking, are only available through the marketplace. If multiple users are working on a user story, we aren't able to pull out the reports. So, there are many things that they aren't offering. They are available only through the marketplace. That's not good for a product."
"The initial setup was a bit problematic in terms of getting access to Jira. That goes for a few users, including me."
"Its UI can be improved a little bit. I know this a business tool and not a commercial tool, but it could be a little bit more interactive like the HP ALM/Quality Center, which provides you the results of graphs and gives you a lot of visual representations. I feel Jira lacks a little bit in this aspect."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is an open-source solution."
"The ballpark figure is about $100 a month."
"There is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the solution. The product offers flexibility in pricing since it depends on the memory bits you have used."
"There are other solutions that are free making this solution seem expensive in comparison."
"Compared to the value Jira provides, it’s not that expensive. It has an yearly licensing cost."
"For very small companies, if you have less than 10 individuals, it is $10 a year for each of the products. When we were a part of the enterprise and had more than 10 people using it, or before they came up with this solution for small companies, it was $2,500 a year for the license for Jira and Confluence, and I believe something like $600 a year to perpetuate the license. I can't remember if it was $600 or $2,500 annually. It was for up to 25 people at the time, and this was in the early 2000s and mid 2000s."
"We are a regional research and education institute. We're using the free license provided for educational institutes."
"It is very cheap if you forego the local instance and stick to the cloud."
"It's not very cheap. It's also not very costly. I'd rate it a five out of ten in terms of pricing."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Computer Software Company
8%
Government
7%
 

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Small Business106
Midsize Enterprise56
Large Enterprise150
 

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