Comparison · Build it yourself
Curiosity and TigerGraph
Graph analytics at scale, or the graph already built
Curiosity gives you a finished context layer; TigerGraph gives you a scalable graph database.
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.
TigerGraph
A distributed graph database queried with GSQL and openCypher, built for analytics over large graphs, with vector search for AI use cases. It is infrastructure for teams building graph applications.
How Curiosity compares
Where the boundary falls
TigerGraph is designed for deep queries over very large graphs. Curiosity is about getting the graph built at all: connected, enriched, kept current and permissioned.
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
Distributed property graph
Industrial fit
Built for industrial and enterprise teams
Graph analytics
Data reach
70+ systems connected, and yours through a connector you write
Whatever you load
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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