Comparison
A modern alternative
to LangChain and LlamaIndex
Curiosity is the system; LangChain and LlamaIndex are frameworks to build one.
Who each tool is for
Different problems, honestly stated
Curiosity
For industrial and regulated teams whose knowledge sits in engineering systems and structured records, where the answer depends on how those records connect, and where the deployment has to run on their own infrastructure.
LangChain and LlamaIndex
Open source frameworks for building applications on language models: retrieval, agents and the glue between them, with hosted services alongside. They give an engineering team full control and leave the system to that team.
How Curiosity compares
Build the layer, or build on it
A framework is the right choice when you want to own every part. Most of the work is not the chain: it is connectors, permission sync, keeping data current and the audit trail, which Curiosity ships.
The parts you would build
Connectors, incremental sync, a typed graph, hybrid retrieval and an interface come with the system rather than being the next quarter of work.
Permissions at query time
Access is synced from the source systems and enforced on every query, down to the record. In a framework that is code your team writes and maintains.
Your code still fits
Custom endpoints, AI tools and agents are written against the graph in C# or Python, so you keep the control a framework gives you.
Side by side
Feature comparison
| Curiosity | LangChain and LlamaIndex | |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Cloud or self-hosted, ready to use | Your code, anywhere |
| Data model | Managed context layer and knowledge graph | Whatever you build |
| Industrial fit | Built for industrial and enterprise teams | Engineering teams |
| Data reach | Connects your sources out of the box | Loaders you wire up |
| Residency | EU hosted, or entirely your own infrastructure | Your choice |
At Airbus, we developed the next generation of customer support AI assistance tools with Curiosity, enhancing our technical support’s ability to access and navigate vast data from multiple sources, including millions of documents.
Services Innovation Team
Airline Services at Airbus
Your data. Your infrastructure.