Comparison of Camunda and jBPM

Features Camunda jBPM About the platform: Camunda is a popular BPM platform for business process automation and decision-making.

Has open source code written in Java.

Suitable for enterprise-scale businesses, as well as companies with a large number of highly complex business processes. Camunda is developer-oriented.

Suitable for mid-sized businesses, as well as companies with a large number of highly complex business processes. jBPM is more oriented toward collaborative work on processes.

Notation support: Camunda supports business process modeling notations and global standards BPMN 2.0, CMMN 1.1, and DMN 1.1. In the visual environment, you can create any business process using notations, and the application will execute it. jBPM focuses on the BPMN 2.0 specification, the global standard for business process modeling.

Supports CMMN 1.1, DMN 1.1, DRL, Solver.

Camunda capabilities: • business process modeling; • business process management; • email integration; • task management; • collaboration; • BRMS; • data visualization; • business process analysis; • business process performance metric display.

jBPM capabilities: • business process modeling; • business process management; • email integration; • task management; • collaboration; • BRMS; • project lifecycle management; • business process analysis; • business process change tracking; • business process performance metric display.

The Camunda platform consists of a set of applications (Modeler, Tasklist, BPMN Engine, DMN Engine, Cockpit, Admin, Optimize) and includes tooling for modeling and executing business processes. jBPM includes tools for building business processes (BPMN2), adaptive case management (BPMN2 and CMMN), business optimization (Solver), decision management (DMN) and business rules (DRL).

Technical features. Camunda supports the latest Java version and any JVM language: Kotlin, Scala, etc. jBPM is written in Java and released under the Apache License 2.0.

Works via a web editor and an Eclipse plugin.

Scalability and customization. Camunda is designed to run in a cluster and therefore scales easily.

Customization is supported. jBPM is also scalable.

Customization is supported.

Performance. Camunda has higher performance and is generally faster in terms of the number of business processes launched per second.

When it comes to large deployments, jBPM is also suitable for high-load projects.