Details
- Vendor
- Eclipse Foundation
- Type
- RDF
- Category
- Established
- License
- BSD-3-Clause
- Language
- Java
- Query Languages
- SPARQL
- Protocols
- HTTP/RESTSPARQL Protocol
Eclipse RDF4J
A Java-based RDF framework and triple store supporting both in-memory and persistent storage. Provides SPARQL query endpoints over HTTP and a pluggable storage architecture (SAIL API) used by other triple store implementations including Ontotext GraphDB.
- Overall rank
- #25
- First released
- 2002
- License
- BSD-3-Clause
- Built with
- Java
Details
Sources 5 references
Protocols HTTP/REST, SPARQL Protocol
RDF4J Server speaks the SPARQL 1.1 Protocol plus a Graph Store/transaction REST API; the RDF4J library can also run embedded via a LocalRepositoryManager with no network layer.
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The RepositoryManager comes in two flavours: the LocalRepositoryManager and the RemoteRepositoryManager.
The Repository API · Eclipse RDF4J™ | The Eclipse Foundation · reviewed 2026-08-02
Released 2002
Corrected from current value '2016' (the year Sesame was forked into the Eclipse RDF4J project) to 2002: RDF4J is a rename of the Sesame framework, whose first public release (0.1) was 2002-02-21.
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2002-02-21 Sesame 0.1 - First public release of Sesame
NLnet; Final report Open Sesame project · reviewed 2026-08-02 -
In May 2016, Sesame officially forked into an Eclipse project called RDF4J, in recognition of Aduna no longer being involved in its development.
RDF4J · reviewed 2026-08-02
Language Java
Confirms current value.
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Eclipse RDF4J™ is an open source modular Java framework for working with RDF data.
The Eclipse RDF4J Framework · Eclipse RDF4J™ | The Eclipse Foundation · reviewed 2026-08-02
License BSD-3-Clause
SPDX identifier as classified by GitHub from the repository licence file.
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"spdx_id": "BSD-3-Clause"
GitHub licence API — eclipse-rdf4j/rdf4j · reviewed 2026-08-02