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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
35th
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
284
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (1st), Application Requirements Management (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the Project Management Software category, the mindshare of Hive is 0.6%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Jira is 4.1%, down from 6.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Project Management Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Jira4.1%
Hive0.6%
Other95.3%
Project Management Software
 

Featured Reviews

SS
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.
RituRaj - PeerSpot reviewer
SDE 2 at Virtusa
Centralized sprint boards have transformed our planning and now improve cross‑team visibility
While Jira is very powerful, there are definitely areas it could be improved, especially for usability and simplicity. One common challenge is that Jira can feel overwhelming for new users. The number of features, configurations, workflows, and settings is huge. Onboarding non-technical teams or new employees sometimes takes longer than expected. A simple default experience for a beginner would help a lot. Another issue is performance. In large organizations with heavy customizations, large backlogs, or complex dashboards, Jira can occasionally feel slow, especially when loading filters, reports, or larger boards. Pricing can also become expensive as an organization scales and multiple Atlassian products and plugins are added. Some smaller teams sometimes feel the ecosystem becomes costly over time. The mobile experience would be smoother for project managers or leadership users who mainly want quick update approvals or dashboard views on the go. Overall, Jira's biggest strength is flexibility, but that flexibility can also create complexity if not managed carefully. Improving simplicity, performance, and ease of adoption would make the platform even stronger. An additional improvement I would mention for Jira is around balancing flexibility with simplicity. Jira gives organizations a huge amount of customization power, which is great. But over time, many teams end up creating overly complicated processes. After a few years, some Jira environments become difficult to maintain because there are many workflows, custom fields, permissions, and automations layered on top of each other. It would help if Jira would provide a strong built-in recommendation or health check for keeping a project clean or efficient. For example, identifying unused custom fields, suggesting workflow simplicity improvements, flagging redundant automations, or recommending dashboard optimization.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"It is a good solution for us when it comes to metadata implementation. It's beneficial to have metadata stored in Hive."
"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."
"I found it super useful, as it is customizable for different teams and users."
"In the last five years, I haven't seen any outages."
"Jira has gone from being a simple bug tracker to a full development planning suite, in addition to tracking our support and production tasks."
"The TAM provided good insight as to how we can more effectively perform troubleshooting, and scale down operational costs."
"The most valuable features in Jira are the dashboard, reports, and boards that help us to control the advancement of the project."
"Jira offers tools for managing projects using Agile methodology. I think it is good to encourage the development team to use Jira, so that the organization benefits from the proper execution of projects on time. Basically, it helps our organization to execute in a better way."
"Jira has been a good l tool for collaborating across large groups of people. The JQL feature is powerful and easy to use."
"Jira has impacted the productivity and cost efficiency for me and my development team, though I have faced some challenges with Jira during this time."
 

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 thing I don't like is that it is hard to decide which dropdown options should be selected. When we try and submit it, it will state that there are certain mandates in place. It won't allow us to submit the form unless we fill out all the details."
"The next-generation software projects lack a lot, and I found quite a few bugs. There are some really basic things that you still cannot do. For instance, to put a mandatory due date for a task that you create in one of these projects is still not available. That's a bit of a block because people, especially those who are not technical, are not going to add anything if it's not mandatory. It's going to be difficult to teach them that they should do it anyway."
"When you first start to use the interface, it is confusing."
"Some small issues with stability."
"Once a story is closed, all the records, versions, and documentation associated with it are gone. We lose the traceability of what was done."
"We'd like to see Jira have more integration with a development ID."
"The only complaint I have about Jira is that there is no field-level permission for the issues in the Jira cloud version."
"When I was managing projects that started from epics and moved to multiple tasks, I found that the integration of epics and user stories could have been a little easier."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is an open-source solution."
"We are on an annual license and could be less expensive."
"It is an affordable tool."
"We make use of the solution free of charge."
"We feel that the product is a good value for the cost."
"It depends on the type of license. In terms of subscription, it is cheap, and it works pretty well."
"It is very cheap if you forego the local instance and stick to the cloud."
"The tool is expensive."
"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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University
16%
Construction Company
16%
Comms Service Provider
15%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
15%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Construction Company
9%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business108
Midsize Enterprise60
Large Enterprise155
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Jira?
Jira is a good tool and it is not that expensive. The setup cost is pretty straightforward and the onboarding is smooth.
 

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