--- title: Apache Jena Reviews meta\_title: 'Apache Jena Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 17 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Apache Jena works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.1 review\_count: 17 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Web Frameworks url: https://www.g2.com/categories/web-frameworks --- # Apache Jena Reviews & Product Details Apache Jena a free and open source Java framework for building Semantic Web and Linked Data applications. * * * Seller [The Apache Software Foundation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/the-apache-software-foundation) Discussions [Apache Jena Community](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-jena/discuss) Show More ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![spring.io](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "spring.io") spring.io 4.5/5(320) ](https://www.g2.com/products/spring-io/reviews) [ ![JHipster](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "JHipster") JHipster 4.4/5(97) ](https://www.g2.com/products/jhipster/reviews) [ ![Hibernate](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Hibernate") Hibernate 4.2/5(29) ](https://www.g2.com/products/hibernate/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-jena/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 17 real user reviews. [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Government Administration](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Government Administration") UG Verified User in Government Administration Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/12/2019 "Apache Jena is for Open Sourced Semantic Web Framework Development" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Jena? It's completely FREE as open sourced Java-based software from Apache Software Foundation. It includes a majority of semantic web technology standards, such as RDF API, SPARQL query language, and Ontology API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Jena? Some of the integration and version upgrades and compatibility issues are difficult at times to manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Jena: Apache Jena is a great option for projects that are comfortable with integration and utilizing Free and Open Sourced Software (FOSS) model. The only drawback is that since it's FOSS, the technical support is only available as open sourced community forums and distribution lists, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Jena solving and how is that benefiting you? Using Apache Jena as the open sourced alternative to support semantic web technologies and linked data graphs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Libraries](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Libraries") UL Verified User in Libraries Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/11/2019 "Supported, best free rdf" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Jena? I've used a lot of paid and free RDF/LD/triplestore tools and I appreciate that jena is easy to install, and is updated all the time. Fuseki is pretty easy to use, and the tools all are very well maintained Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Jena? Unfortunately, Java - certainly it is nice it runs everywhere but it's just not what everyone expects in 2018, esp. with how every server does not have jdk 1.8 so you have to install it. Fuseki doesn't really work well with large triplestores, so you eventually have to switch to a commercial product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Jena solving and how is that benefiting you? The main thing I use it for is riot to validate triples - the other tool we were using, Raptor, has a bug and I'm trying to get my team to use riot instead because it validates IRIs more accurately, and doesn't have the serialization bugs. The other thing is for doing sparql queries in Fuseki. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Accounting](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Accounting") UA Verified User in Accounting Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/16/2019 "Very good software" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Jena? It’s very helpful in the office and it’s very reliable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Jena? At first it can be complicated to download and work but after a few tries it’s easy Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Jena: Just take the time to learn all the works of the system it’s hard at first but it’s gets very easy with practice Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Jena solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using a much better system because of this software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Libraries](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Libraries") UL Verified User in Libraries Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 4/11/2019 "Great for Querying Sparql" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Jena? I use it for Semantic Scripting in RDF and XML and Sparql queries in command line. It works well and has good promise for next gen web capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Jena? There’s not much to dislike. It does what it is supposed to do. It uses command line and the software downloads to sit in your files. This was difficult to set up at first. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Jena solving and how is that benefiting you? Using it to help advance library querying and storing of data. It’s easy to teach to those who have low to intermediate skills in querying and coding. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite CS chandan s. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/24/2018 ""best java framework to build semantic web!!"" 5/5 What do you like best about Apache Jena? so basically semantic web was a dream of Tim Berners-Lee (The creator of world wide web ,and we can develop this kind of big semantic web application using java so easily using it, the best thing is we can easily define any kind of complex semantic network in it.It also has fuseki and TDB which provides very good transaction persistent layer!!The setup is not trivial for vanilla Lucene. It helps to use something like SOLR or Elasticsearch that sits on top of Lucene to allow for your applications to easily interact with the backend. SOLR provides a great API (with XML and JSON output) for indexing and retrieving data. The statistics capability are the time we used it had a lot of room for improvement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Jena? while using the logging functionality we need configure so many things so there is alwaysa new configuration overhead when you try to provide additional functionalities!! The tool that the SOLR addition of Lucene provides needs improvement, although it works and does its job and was difficult to set up and get to work in a large scale production environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Apache Jena: I like Jena because it's a search engine implemented in Java. Java is a easy-to-understand language.Lucene provides several useful features for implementing search engines and search features in you business appllications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Jena solving and how is that benefiting you? it's a best framework to build complex semantic web application and for the learning purpose it also provides datasets!!we develop vertical applications using apache jena for the The Health Care domain!!A free and open source Java framework for building Semantic Web applications. The full text search and faceting enabled our library to move into the 20th century in terms of providing a full-featured search tool to our patrons. We used Lucene in conjunction with SOLR to index and expose our metadata from a variety of sources, including MARC, EAD, and HTML data. We eventually incorporated Elasticsearch into the mix to deal with unstructured JSON data (as it can operate without an official schema). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Seller invite RC Rasik c. Manager Oil & Energy Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/13/2019 "Apache jena For business" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Jena? Apache jena is good and provides exhaustive Java lib for developer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Jena? This being a open source, practically nothing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Jena solving and how is that benefiting you? Web applications, Easy implementation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Education Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Education Management") UE Verified User in Education Management Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/12/2018 " Review for Jena Apache" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Apache Jena? building Semantic Web is easy with this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Apache Jena? Getting to know how to use takes time long Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Apache Jena solving and how is that benefiting you? A free and open source Java framework for building Semantic Web applications Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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