Comparison
A modern alternative
to Snowflake
Curiosity connects records where they live; Snowflake runs agents over the data in its cloud.
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.
Snowflake
A cloud data platform with Cortex Agents and Snowflake Intelligence, a natural language front end for business users to ask questions of governed data and trigger agents. It suits organizations whose analytical data is in Snowflake.
How Curiosity compares
Governed tables, or the whole estate
Snowflake is strong where the answer is in the warehouse. Curiosity is for answers spread across engineering systems and documents, kept with the permissions of the systems they came from.
Records and documents, not only tables
Industrial knowledge lives in tickets, documents, email and engineering systems as much as in the warehouse. Curiosity connects them where they are.
Permissions from the source
Access is synced from each source system, down to the record, rather than modeled again in a second set of grants.
Tools for the people who do the work
Studio builds apps and agents for engineers and support teams, on top of the graph, without a data team in the loop for each one.
Side by side
Feature comparison
| Curiosity | Snowflake | |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Cloud or self-hosted, ready to use | Vendor cloud |
| Data model | Managed context layer and knowledge graph | Warehouse tables and documents |
| Industrial fit | Built for industrial and enterprise teams | Analytics, business users |
| Data reach | Connects your sources out of the box | What is loaded into Snowflake |
| Residency | EU hosted, or entirely your own infrastructure | Cloud provider regions |
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.