Comparison
A modern alternative
to Vectara
Curiosity structures your records into a graph; Vectara serves retrieval over documents.
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.
Vectara
A platform for retrieval-augmented generation and agents over documents, offered as a managed service and in private deployments, with a focus on grounded answers and hallucination detection. Developers build their applications on its API.
How Curiosity compares
Retrieval as a service, or a graph of records
Vectara is a strong retrieval service for developers. Curiosity models the entities and relationships in structured records too, and ships the connectors, permissions and interface around them.
Built for the industrial estate
General assistants are tuned for cloud collaboration tools. Curiosity connects engineering systems, data lakes, network drives and proprietary sources.
Structured context, not a chat layer
The graph models entities and relationships, so answers reason over how records connect rather than over retrieved passages.
On your infrastructure
On premises or private cloud, with data residency you control and the model of your choice.
Side by side
Feature comparison
| Curiosity | Vectara | |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Cloud or self-hosted, ready to use | Managed or private deployment |
| Data model | Managed context layer and knowledge graph | RAG over documents |
| Industrial fit | Built for industrial and enterprise teams | Developer platform, general |
| Data reach | Connects your sources out of the box | Documents you send |
| Residency | EU hosted, or entirely your own infrastructure | Vendor cloud or yours |
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.