Comparison · Build it yourself
Curiosity and metaphactory
Model the ontology, or connect the records
Curiosity gives you a finished context layer; metaphactory is a platform to model and explore a knowledge graph.
Your data · your environment
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.
metaphactory
A knowledge graph platform from metaphacts, a German company, for modeling ontologies and building applications to explore and edit semantic data on RDF graph databases. It is used in engineering, manufacturing and life sciences by teams that work with a formal ontology.
How Curiosity compares
Where the boundary falls
metaphactory is a strong choice for a team that wants to own a formal ontology and the knowledge graph built from it. Curiosity starts from the records instead: connectors, enrichment, permissions and retrieval come with the system, so the graph is useful before anyone has written an ontology.
A finished layer, not a database
A graph store gives you somewhere to put the data. Curiosity ships the connectors, the enrichment, the retrieval and the permissions on top of it.
Weeks, not a modeling program
Building a context layer on raw graph infrastructure is a project measured in quarters and staffed with ontology expertise.
Search and AI included
Hybrid retrieval and model routing come with the system rather than being the next two things to integrate.
Side by side
Feature comparison
The same five questions, answered for both.
Deployment
Cloud or self-hosted, ready to use
Self-managed or cloud
Data model
Managed context layer and knowledge graph
Semantic knowledge graph on RDF
Industrial fit
Built for industrial and enterprise teams
Engineering and life sciences, ontology first
Data reach
70+ systems connected, and yours through a connector you write
Graph databases and loaded sources
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
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