Databricks Lakehouse Platform vs Kira

Likelihood to Recommend

Databricks has helped my teams write PySpark and Spark SQL jobs and test them out before formally integrating them in Spark jobs. Through Databricks we can create parquet and JSON output files. Datamodelers and scientists who are not very good with coding can get good insight into the data using the notebooks that can be developed by the engineers.

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Team Lead in Engineering

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Kira is a great due diligence tool and can be well utilised on both large and small transactions. It also has good application if you are looking to compare multiple documents against a model form document or market standard templates. Kira is less useful if you are looking to review emails (e.g. as part of a disclosure exercise); or if your review involves non-Latin based script languages.

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Employee in Legal

Law Practice Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Pros

It supports all data science programming languages like Python and R
it takes very few minutes to deploy models into production
it has tools that ensures collaborations between developers

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Kofi Joshua

Machine Learning And Deep Learning Mentee

Runmila AI InstituteEducation Management, 201-500 employees

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UI/UX - tagging and naming feels much easier than you'd expect machine learning to feel
Accuracy - Kira's built-in models perform well out of the box
Assistance - Kira's support team gets back to me same day if I have a question

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Analyst in Other

Law Practice Company, 201-500 employees

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Cons

Better Localized Testing
When they were primarily OSS Spark; it was easier to test/manage releases versus the newer DB Runtime. Wish there was more configuration in Runtime less pick a version.
Graphing Support went non-existent; when it was one of their compelling general engine.

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Director in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 201-500 employees

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Inability to relabel smart fields to suit the review process means it is hard to align it to particular projects (e.g. it would be useful to relabel the "Assignment" smart field as "Is the contract assignable?")
Not enough non-English smart fields.
Needs the ability to resell user-trained smart fields in a marketplace.
Output is not customizable enough.
Built-in analysis tools are useful but a little basic.

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Manager in Legal

Legal Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Usability

Databricks Lakehouse Platform 9.0

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This has been very useful in my organization for shared notebooks, integrated data pipeline automation and data sources integrations. Integration with AWS is seamless. Non tech users can easily learn how to use Databricks. You can have your company LDAP connect to it for login based access controls to some extent

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Team Lead in Engineering

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Kira 7.7

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If our firm had more contracts in English, the usability of Kira would be rated higher. However, since we have to train clauses in Portuguese in order to use Kira, it makes its usability lower. We still are not able to fully use Kira for reading contracts in Portuguese. It takes a long time and many associate hours to make Kira usable in other languages.

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Professional in Legal

Law Practice Company, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

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Kira 7.7

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Customer Support is excellent. The online help portal is probably the best I have ever seen. Great videos with content easily found. The HelpLine is staffed by knowledgeable people. The videos have saved us providing a lot of in-house training, which we would struggle to resource. The account managers really know the product and their law firm clients and share best practices and trends.

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Team Lead in Legal

Law Practice Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I also use Microsoft Azure Machine Learning in parallel with Databricks. They use different file formats which teach me to be flexible and able to write different programs. They are equally useful to me and I would like to master both platforms for any future usage. I do prefer Databricks because it could be free if I decided to go with the Databricks Community Edition only.

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Ann Le

Freelance Translator

ZOO Digital Group plcEntertainment, 501-1000 employees

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Kira offers a lot more out of the box than other providers and is also more flexible around integrations. This, plus the clear pricing structure, is why we went for it instead of (or as well as) others.Diligen, RAVN, Leverton, Della, Seal not in list.

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Advisor in Legal

Law Practice Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Return on Investment

Rapid growth of analytics within our company.
Cost model aligns with usage allowing us to make a reasonable initial investment and scale the cost as we realize the value.
Platform is easy to learn and Databricks provides excellent support and training.
Platform does not require a large DevOPs investment

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Strategist in Engineering

Computer Hardware Company, 10,001+ employees

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Positive ROI: Increased comfort level of attorneys and use of tech
Neutral ROI: It has not significantly change how we handle projects, since there still is a need for manual review
Negative ROI: It has been cost prohibitive to scale it

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Ali Shahidi

CInO

Sheppard MullinLegal Services, 1001-5000 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Databricks Lakehouse Platform Editions & Modules

Edition

Standard	$0.07¹
Premium	$0.10¹
Enterprise	$0.13¹

Per DBU

Additional Pricing Details

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Required

Kira Editions & Modules

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Additional Pricing Details

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Databricks Lakehouse Platform vs Kira