Comparison
Find out how Curiosity connects and models your data where IBM focuses on document analytics.
Context graph
AIRCRAFT
A320 · MSN 7420
Component
Bulkhead BK-204
Service bulletin
SB-118 · open
Supplier
Tier-1 · Hamburg
Maintenance
WO-5571 · closed
Relationships across systems, not just documents
Who each tool is for
Curiosity
For industrial teams that need structured context and on-premises control. Knowledge lives in engineering systems, structured records and regulated environments, and the answers have to reason over how those things connect.
IBM Enterprise Search
IBM Enterprise Search, delivered through Watson Discovery and watsonx Discovery, is an AI search and content analytics platform. It uses natural language processing to extract entities, insights and answers from unstructured documents, and it runs in the IBM cloud and hybrid environments. watsonx Discovery uses Elasticsearch for vector and semantic search.
IBM focuses on analysing and searching document content, often as part of the wider watsonx platform. Curiosity connects your systems into a context graph and runs on your own infrastructure, with the language model as a component you plug in.
A context graph, not document analytics
IBM extracts insights from documents. Curiosity models the entities and relationships across your systems into a context graph a model can reason over.
One system, faster to production
IBM deployments often span several products and services. Curiosity ships connectors, search, the knowledge graph, security and APIs together.
Runs on your infrastructure
Curiosity runs where your data lives and connects the language model you choose, rather than tying you to one vendor's model and cloud.
Side by side
Feature comparison
Deployment
Cloud or self hosted, ready to use
IBM cloud and hybrid
Data model
Managed context layer and knowledge graph
NLP over documents
Industrial fit
Built for industrial and enterprise teams
Document analytics, broad sectors
Data reach
Connects your sources out of the box
Unstructured content
Residency
EU hosted, you control residency
IBM cloud and hybrid
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