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Comparison of Features Between Virtuoso, Apache Jena, and Qlever

FeatureVirtuosoApache JenaQleverWikibase
SPARQL SupportYesYesYesYes
SPARQL EndpointYesYes (via Fuseki)YesYes
RDF StorageYesYesYesYes
Inference SupportBackward chaining with rdfs_rule_set(), supports rdfs:subClassOf, rdfs:subPropertyOf, owl:sameAs, owl:equivalentClass, owl:equivalentProperty. No materialized triples.Yes (Built-in rule-based reasoners for RDFS, OWL Lite, OWL Mini, OWL Micro, and custom rule-based inference)NoNot out-of-the-box (additional configuration of the triple stored required)
Granular Access ControlNoYesNoYes
Multilingual DataYesYesYesYes
Ontology ImportYes (loads OWL, RDFS & supports reasoning)Yes (can load ontologies as RDF but limited reasoning)Limited (can query ontologies if preloaded, but no built-in reasoning)Not out-of-the-box (triple store can be configured with pre-loaded ontologies as RDF but limited reasoning)
Reification SupportYesYesNoYes
Web APIYesYesNoYes
Querying SpeedModerate (good for small/medium datasets, slower on larger data)Fast (optimized for large RDF graphs)Very Fast (optimized for massive datasets like Wikidata)Moderate (good for small/medium datasets, slower on larger data)
Primary Use CaseRDF processing, SPARQL querying, reasoningEnterprise-grade RDF storage & queryingHigh-performance SPARQL with full-text searchData curation and LOD-ification with human-in-the-loop, SPARQL querying
Supported RDF FormatsRDF/XML, Turtle, N-Triples, N-Quads, JSON-LD, TriG, RDF-JSON, HTML+RDFa, N3, OData+Atom, OData+JSONRDF/XML, Turtle, N-Triples, N-Quads, JSON-LD, TriG, TriX, RDF/JSON, RDF BinaryRDF/XML, Turtle, N-TriplesRDF/XML, Turtle, N-Triples, JSON-LD, RDF-JSON
SPARQL Query OutputXML, JSON, CSV, TSVXML, JSON, CSV, TSVJSON (Optimized for Wikidata)JSON, CSV, TSV
Other Format SupportParquet (via extensions)SQL integrationNoNo
Fully Open SourceYesPartially (Open Source + Proprietary Enterprise Edition)YesYes