Comparison
A modern alternative
to Mendix
Curiosity builds tools on your connected records; Mendix is a low code platform for building applications.
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.
Mendix
A low code application platform owned by Siemens, used to build enterprise and industrial applications with visual modeling, deployable in the cloud, a private cloud or on premises. Teams model the data and logic of each application.
How Curiosity compares
Model each application, or describe it
Mendix gives a development team full control over a long-lived application. Studio is for the many smaller tools that never make the backlog: describe it, and it is built on records that are already connected and permissioned.
Grounded, not guessed
A tool Studio builds runs on the graph, so every figure it shows traces back to a record in a source system.
Your permissions, inherited
A generated tool cannot show a user anything the source system would not already show them, down to the individual record.
From prompt to production
The tool ships to real users with an audit trail, not as a prototype someone has to rebuild before it goes live.
Runs on your infrastructure
On premises or in your private cloud, with the language model you choose.
Side by side
Feature comparison
| Curiosity | Mendix | |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Cloud or self-hosted, ready to use | Cloud, private cloud or on premises |
| Data model | Managed context layer and knowledge graph | Modeled application data |
| Industrial fit | Built for industrial and enterprise teams | Enterprise and industrial apps |
| Data reach | Connects your sources out of the box | Connectors per application |
| Residency | EU hosted, or entirely your own infrastructure | Configurable |
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.