Comparison
A modern alternative
to TigerGraph
Curiosity gives you a finished context layer; TigerGraph gives you a scalable graph database.
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
Graph analytics at scale, or the graph already built
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
| Curiosity | TigerGraph | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Connects your sources out of the box | 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
Your data. Your infrastructure.