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Eclipse RDF4J vs Ontotext Platform

Eclipse RDF4J

rdf4j.org

Ontotext Platform

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FigureEclipse RDF4JOntotext Platform
Price fromFree—
Free planYes—
Free trial——
Open sourceYes—
WebYesYes
WindowsYes—
macOSYes—
LinuxYesYes
APIYesYes
Self-hostedYesYes
Plans published11
Spec score · Knowledge Graph Software9.0 (#3)7.4 (#25)
Founded20152000
IntegrationsDocumented compatible systems include GraphDB, Halyard, Stardog, Amazon Neptune, Blazegraph, Oracle RDF, MarkLogic, Strabon and Virtuoso.The platform documentation describes integrations with GraphDB, Elasticsearch, FusionAuth, Kong, MongoDB, Grafana, InfluxDB, and Telegraf.
PurposeRDF4J is a modular Java framework for parsing, storing, querying, and reasoning over RDF data.The platform is designed to connect knowledge graphs and text analytics to support search, exploration, classification, and recommendation across diverse information spaces.
SecurityThe Eclipse project page links to the Eclipse Foundation vulnerability reporting channel.Authentication and role based access controls can be configured using FusionAuth, Kong, Semantic Objects RBAC, and GraphDB authorization; these controls are not enabled by default.

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Eclipse RDF4J

  • Eclipse RDF4JFree

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Ontotext Platform

  • Commercial time-based licensePriced on request

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In their own words

Eclipse RDF4J

Eclipse RDF4J is a modular Java framework for parsing, storing, querying, and reasoning over RDF data. It supports SPARQL 1.1 query and update, and its API can access remote RDF repositories in the same way as local ones. Supported formats include RDF/XML, Turtle, N-Triples, N-Quads, JSON-LD, TriG, and TriX. Storage options include a transactional in-memory store with optional disk persistence and a transactional Native Store aimed at medium-sized datasets around 100 million triples. Extensions add full-text search, RDFS inferencing, rule-based reasoning, SHACL and SPIN validation, and geospatial queries. The SDK bundles libraries, Server, Workbench, Console, and Javadoc API; Workbench includes a web interface with a SPARQL editor. Developers can use Maven artifacts or download an SDK zip or onejar. RDF4J is free under the Eclipse Distribution License, version 1.0. The latest stable release, 6.1.0, requires Java 25 or newer. The project describes its core databases as mainly intended for small to medium-sized datasets and notes third-party stores may scale further or offer additional features.

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