diff --git a/core/model-vocabulary/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/model/vocabulary/CONFIG.java b/core/model-vocabulary/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/model/vocabulary/CONFIG.java
index bc9096e4386..52b3fac5744 100644
--- a/core/model-vocabulary/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/model/vocabulary/CONFIG.java
+++ b/core/model-vocabulary/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/model/vocabulary/CONFIG.java
@@ -277,6 +277,12 @@ public static final class Native {
 		 */
 		public final static IRI namespaceIDCacheSize = createIRI(NAMESPACE, "native.namespaceIDCacheSize");
 
+		/**
+		 * <var>tag:rdf4j.org,2025:config/native.memoryMappedTxnStatusFile</var>
+		 */
+		public final static IRI memoryMappedTxnStatusFile = createIRI(NAMESPACE,
+				"native.memoryMappedTxnStatusFile");
+
 		// ValueStore WAL configuration properties
 		/** <var>tag:rdf4j.org,2023:config/native.walMaxSegmentBytes</var> */
 		public final static IRI walMaxSegmentBytes = createIRI(NAMESPACE, "native.walMaxSegmentBytes");
diff --git a/core/sail/nativerdf/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/NativeSailStore.java b/core/sail/nativerdf/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/NativeSailStore.java
index cc84e1a08bb..2bf1954a954 100644
--- a/core/sail/nativerdf/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/NativeSailStore.java
+++ b/core/sail/nativerdf/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/NativeSailStore.java
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ class NativeSailStore implements SailStore {
 
 	private final ContextStore contextStore;
 	private final boolean walEnabled;
+	private final Boolean memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled;
 
 	/**
 	 * A lock to control concurrent access by {@link NativeSailSink} to the TripleStore, ValueStore, and NamespaceStore.
@@ -99,7 +100,7 @@ class NativeSailStore implements SailStore {
 	public NativeSailStore(File dataDir, String tripleIndexes) throws IOException, SailException {
 		this(dataDir, tripleIndexes, false, ValueStore.VALUE_CACHE_SIZE, ValueStore.VALUE_ID_CACHE_SIZE,
 				ValueStore.NAMESPACE_CACHE_SIZE, ValueStore.NAMESPACE_ID_CACHE_SIZE,
-				-1L, -1, -1, null, -1L, -1L, null, false, false, true);
+				-1L, -1, -1, null, -1L, -1L, null, false, false, true, null);
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -114,7 +115,7 @@ public NativeSailStore(File dataDir, String tripleIndexes, boolean forceSync, in
 			throws IOException, SailException {
 		this(dataDir, tripleIndexes, forceSync, valueCacheSize, valueIDCacheSize, namespaceCacheSize,
 				namespaceIDCacheSize, walMaxSegmentBytes, walQueueCapacity, walBatchBufferBytes, walSyncPolicy,
-				walSyncIntervalMillis, walIdlePollIntervalMillis, walDirectoryName, false, false, true);
+				walSyncIntervalMillis, walIdlePollIntervalMillis, walDirectoryName, false, false, true, null);
 	}
 
 	public NativeSailStore(File dataDir, String tripleIndexes, boolean forceSync, int valueCacheSize,
@@ -122,9 +123,11 @@ public NativeSailStore(File dataDir, String tripleIndexes, boolean forceSync, in
 			int walQueueCapacity, int walBatchBufferBytes,
 			ValueStoreWalConfig.SyncPolicy walSyncPolicy,
 			long walSyncIntervalMillis, long walIdlePollIntervalMillis, String walDirectoryName,
-			boolean walSyncBootstrapOnOpen, boolean walAutoRecoverOnOpen, boolean walEnabled)
+			boolean walSyncBootstrapOnOpen, boolean walAutoRecoverOnOpen, boolean walEnabled,
+			Boolean memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled)
 			throws IOException, SailException {
 		this.walEnabled = walEnabled;
+		this.memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled = memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled;
 		NamespaceStore createdNamespaceStore = null;
 		ValueStoreWAL createdWal = null;
 		ValueStore createdValueStore = null;
@@ -171,7 +174,7 @@ public NativeSailStore(File dataDir, String tripleIndexes, boolean forceSync, in
 			}
 			createdValueStore = new ValueStore(dataDir, forceSync, valueCacheSize, valueIDCacheSize,
 					namespaceCacheSize, namespaceIDCacheSize, createdWal);
-			createdTripleStore = new TripleStore(dataDir, tripleIndexes, forceSync);
+			createdTripleStore = new TripleStore(dataDir, tripleIndexes, forceSync, memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled);
 
 			// Assign fields required by ContextStore before constructing it
 			namespaceStore = createdNamespaceStore;
diff --git a/core/sail/nativerdf/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/NativeStore.java b/core/sail/nativerdf/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/NativeStore.java
index 6b3c77d94fa..e5f31939c84 100644
--- a/core/sail/nativerdf/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/NativeStore.java
+++ b/core/sail/nativerdf/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/NativeStore.java
@@ -144,6 +144,8 @@ protected SailStore createSailStore(File dataDir) throws IOException, SailExcept
 
 	private volatile int namespaceIDCacheSize = ValueStore.NAMESPACE_ID_CACHE_SIZE;
 
+	private volatile Boolean memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled;
+
 	private SailStore store;
 
 	// used to decide if store is writable, is true if the store was writable during initialization
@@ -276,6 +278,14 @@ public void setNamespaceIDCacheSize(int namespaceIDCacheSize) {
 		this.namespaceIDCacheSize = namespaceIDCacheSize;
 	}
 
+	public Boolean getMemoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled() {
+		return memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled;
+	}
+
+	public void setMemoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled(Boolean memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled) {
+		this.memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled = memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled;
+	}
+
 	@Experimental
 	public void setWalMaxSegmentBytes(long walMaxSegmentBytes) {
 		this.walMaxSegmentBytes = walMaxSegmentBytes;
@@ -492,7 +502,8 @@ protected void initializeInternal() throws SailException {
 					walDirectoryName,
 					walSyncBootstrapOnOpen,
 					walAutoRecoverOnOpen,
-					walEnabled);
+					walEnabled,
+					memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled);
 			this.store = new SnapshotSailStore(mainStore, MemoryOverflowIntoNativeStore::new) {
 
 				@Override
diff --git a/core/sail/nativerdf/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/TripleStore.java b/core/sail/nativerdf/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/TripleStore.java
index 88e60a3eaa4..ccb1b4c4943 100644
--- a/core/sail/nativerdf/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/TripleStore.java
+++ b/core/sail/nativerdf/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/TripleStore.java
@@ -80,12 +80,6 @@ class TripleStore implements Closeable {
 	 */
 	private static final String INDEXES_KEY = "triple-indexes";
 
-	/**
-	 * System property that enables the experimental {@link MemoryMappedTxnStatusFile} implementation instead of the
-	 * default {@link TxnStatusFile}.
-	 */
-	private static final String MEMORY_MAPPED_TXN_STATUS_FILE_ENABLED_PROP = "org.eclipse.rdf4j.sail.nativerdf.MemoryMappedTxnStatusFile.enabled";
-
 	/**
 	 * The version number for the current triple store.
 	 * <ul>
@@ -168,13 +162,18 @@ class TripleStore implements Closeable {
 	 *--------------*/
 
 	public TripleStore(File dir, String indexSpecStr) throws IOException, SailException {
-		this(dir, indexSpecStr, false);
+		this(dir, indexSpecStr, false, null);
 	}
 
 	public TripleStore(File dir, String indexSpecStr, boolean forceSync) throws IOException, SailException {
+		this(dir, indexSpecStr, forceSync, null);
+	}
+
+	public TripleStore(File dir, String indexSpecStr, boolean forceSync, Boolean memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled)
+			throws IOException, SailException {
 		this.dir = dir;
 		this.forceSync = forceSync;
-		this.txnStatusFile = createTxnStatusFile(dir);
+		this.txnStatusFile = createTxnStatusFile(dir, memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled);
 
 		File propFile = new File(dir, PROPERTIES_FILE);
 
@@ -229,8 +228,10 @@ public TripleStore(File dir, String indexSpecStr, boolean forceSync) throws IOEx
 		}
 	}
 
-	private static TxnStatusFile createTxnStatusFile(File dir) throws IOException {
-		if (Boolean.getBoolean(MEMORY_MAPPED_TXN_STATUS_FILE_ENABLED_PROP)) {
+	private static TxnStatusFile createTxnStatusFile(File dir, Boolean memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled)
+			throws IOException {
+		boolean enabled = Boolean.TRUE.equals(memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled);
+		if (enabled) {
 			return new MemoryMappedTxnStatusFile(dir);
 		}
 		return new TxnStatusFile(dir);
diff --git a/core/sail/nativerdf/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/config/NativeStoreConfig.java b/core/sail/nativerdf/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/config/NativeStoreConfig.java
index b757cf0e3f8..2e9cac53097 100644
--- a/core/sail/nativerdf/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/config/NativeStoreConfig.java
+++ b/core/sail/nativerdf/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/config/NativeStoreConfig.java
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ public class NativeStoreConfig extends BaseSailConfig {
 	private int valueIDCacheSize = -1;
 	private int namespaceCacheSize = -1;
 	private int namespaceIDCacheSize = -1;
+	private Boolean memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled;
 
 	// WAL: expose max segment bytes via config (optional)
 	private long walMaxSegmentBytes = -1L;
@@ -124,6 +125,14 @@ public void setNamespaceIDCacheSize(int namespaceIDCacheSize) {
 		this.namespaceIDCacheSize = namespaceIDCacheSize;
 	}
 
+	public Boolean getMemoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled() {
+		return memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled;
+	}
+
+	public void setMemoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled(Boolean memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled) {
+		this.memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled = memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled;
+	}
+
 	public long getWalMaxSegmentBytes() {
 		return walMaxSegmentBytes;
 	}
@@ -231,6 +240,10 @@ public Resource export(Model m) {
 		if (namespaceIDCacheSize >= 0) {
 			m.add(implNode, CONFIG.Native.namespaceIDCacheSize, literal(namespaceIDCacheSize));
 		}
+		if (memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled != null) {
+			m.add(implNode, CONFIG.Native.memoryMappedTxnStatusFile,
+					literal(memoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled));
+		}
 		// WAL configuration properties
 		if (walMaxSegmentBytes >= 0) {
 			m.add(implNode, CONFIG.Native.walMaxSegmentBytes, literal(walMaxSegmentBytes));
@@ -347,8 +360,8 @@ public void parse(Model m, Resource implNode) throws SailConfigException {
 						}
 					});
 
-			Configurations.getLiteralValue(m, implNode, CONFIG.Native.namespaceIDCacheSize, NAMESPACE_ID_CACHE_SIZE)
-					.ifPresent(lit -> {
+			Configurations.getLiteralValue(m, implNode, CONFIG.Native.namespaceIDCacheSize,
+					NAMESPACE_ID_CACHE_SIZE).ifPresent(lit -> {
 						try {
 							setNamespaceIDCacheSize(lit.intValue());
 						} catch (NumberFormatException e) {
@@ -358,6 +371,16 @@ public void parse(Model m, Resource implNode) throws SailConfigException {
 						}
 					});
 
+			Configurations.getLiteralValue(m, implNode, CONFIG.Native.memoryMappedTxnStatusFile)
+					.ifPresent(lit -> {
+						try {
+							setMemoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled(lit.booleanValue());
+						} catch (IllegalArgumentException e) {
+							throw new SailConfigException("Boolean value required for "
+									+ CONFIG.Native.memoryMappedTxnStatusFile + " property, found " + lit);
+						}
+					});
+
 			// WAL configuration properties
 			Configurations.getLiteralValue(m, implNode, CONFIG.Native.walMaxSegmentBytes)
 					.ifPresent(lit -> {
diff --git a/core/sail/nativerdf/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/config/NativeStoreFactory.java b/core/sail/nativerdf/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/config/NativeStoreFactory.java
index 26c858df305..1a494fb9c18 100644
--- a/core/sail/nativerdf/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/config/NativeStoreFactory.java
+++ b/core/sail/nativerdf/src/main/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/config/NativeStoreFactory.java
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ public Sail getSail(SailImplConfig config) throws SailConfigException {
 			if (nativeConfig.getNamespaceIDCacheSize() >= 0) {
 				nativeStore.setNamespaceIDCacheSize(nativeConfig.getNamespaceIDCacheSize());
 			}
+			if (nativeConfig.getMemoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled() != null) {
+				nativeStore.setMemoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled(nativeConfig.getMemoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled());
+			}
 			if (nativeConfig.getIterationCacheSyncThreshold() > 0) {
 				nativeStore.setIterationCacheSyncThreshold(nativeConfig.getIterationCacheSyncThreshold());
 			}
diff --git a/core/sail/nativerdf/src/test/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/MemoryMappedTxnStatusFileConfigTest.java b/core/sail/nativerdf/src/test/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/MemoryMappedTxnStatusFileConfigTest.java
index edc9441c130..8370aec0f70 100644
--- a/core/sail/nativerdf/src/test/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/MemoryMappedTxnStatusFileConfigTest.java
+++ b/core/sail/nativerdf/src/test/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/MemoryMappedTxnStatusFileConfigTest.java
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;
 
 /**
- * Verifies that the implementation used for the transaction status file can be controlled via a system property.
+ * Verifies that the implementation used for the transaction status file is controlled through configuration rather than
+ * a JVM system property.
  */
 public class MemoryMappedTxnStatusFileConfigTest {
 
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ public void defaultUsesNioTxnStatusFile() throws Exception {
 	}
 
 	@Test
-	public void memoryMappedEnabledUsesFixedSizeFile() throws Exception {
+	public void systemPropertyIsIgnored() throws Exception {
 		System.setProperty(MEMORY_MAPPED_ENABLED_PROP, "true");
 
 		TripleStore tripleStore = new TripleStore(dataDir, "spoc");
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ public void memoryMappedEnabledUsesFixedSizeFile() throws Exception {
 
 		File txnStatusFile = new File(dataDir, TxnStatusFile.FILE_NAME);
 		assertTrue(txnStatusFile.exists(), "Transaction status file should exist");
-		assertEquals(1L, txnStatusFile.length(),
-				"Memory-mapped TxnStatusFile keeps a single status byte on disk for NONE status");
+		assertEquals(0L, txnStatusFile.length(),
+				"System property does not switch to memory-mapped TxnStatusFile");
 	}
 }
diff --git a/core/sail/nativerdf/src/test/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/NativeStoreTxnStatusConfigTest.java b/core/sail/nativerdf/src/test/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/NativeStoreTxnStatusConfigTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c3f8641721e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/sail/nativerdf/src/test/java/org/eclipse/rdf4j/sail/nativerdf/NativeStoreTxnStatusConfigTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2025 Eclipse RDF4J contributors.
+ *
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Distribution License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.rdf4j.sail.nativerdf;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.lang.reflect.Field;
+
+import org.eclipse.rdf4j.model.IRI;
+import org.eclipse.rdf4j.model.ValueFactory;
+import org.eclipse.rdf4j.model.impl.SimpleValueFactory;
+import org.eclipse.rdf4j.repository.Repository;
+import org.eclipse.rdf4j.repository.RepositoryConnection;
+import org.eclipse.rdf4j.repository.sail.SailRepository;
+import org.eclipse.rdf4j.sail.nativerdf.config.NativeStoreConfig;
+import org.eclipse.rdf4j.sail.nativerdf.config.NativeStoreFactory;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;
+
+class NativeStoreTxnStatusConfigTest {
+
+	@TempDir
+	File dataDir;
+
+	@Test
+	void configEnablesMemoryMappedTxnStatusFile() throws Exception {
+		NativeStoreConfig cfg = new NativeStoreConfig("spoc");
+		cfg.setMemoryMappedTxnStatusFileEnabled(true);
+
+		NativeStoreFactory factory = new NativeStoreFactory();
+		NativeStore sail = (NativeStore) factory.getSail(cfg);
+		sail.setDataDir(dataDir);
+
+		Repository repo = new SailRepository(sail);
+		repo.init();
+		assertThat(extractTxnStatusFile(sail)).isInstanceOf(MemoryMappedTxnStatusFile.class);
+		try (RepositoryConnection conn = repo.getConnection()) {
+			ValueFactory vf = SimpleValueFactory.getInstance();
+			IRI p = vf.createIRI("http://example.com/p");
+			conn.add(vf.createIRI("http://example.com/s"), p, vf.createLiteral("o"));
+		}
+		repo.shutDown();
+
+		File txnStatusFile = new File(dataDir, TxnStatusFile.FILE_NAME);
+		assertThat(txnStatusFile).exists();
+		assertThat(txnStatusFile.length()).isEqualTo(1L);
+	}
+
+	private TxnStatusFile extractTxnStatusFile(NativeStore sail) throws Exception {
+		NativeSailStore store = (NativeSailStore) sail.getSailStore();
+
+		Field tripleStoreField = NativeSailStore.class.getDeclaredField("tripleStore");
+		tripleStoreField.setAccessible(true);
+		TripleStore tripleStore = (TripleStore) tripleStoreField.get(store);
+
+		Field txnStatusFileField = TripleStore.class.getDeclaredField("txnStatusFile");
+		txnStatusFileField.setAccessible(true);
+		return (TxnStatusFile) txnStatusFileField.get(tripleStore);
+	}
+}
diff --git a/site/content/documentation/reference/configuration.md b/site/content/documentation/reference/configuration.md
index 93e0e121508..687b345051d 100644
--- a/site/content/documentation/reference/configuration.md
+++ b/site/content/documentation/reference/configuration.md
@@ -251,6 +251,8 @@ Creating more indexes potentially speeds up querying (a lot), but also adds over
 
 The native store automatically creates/drops indexes upon (re)initialization, so the parameter can be adjusted and upon the first refresh of the configuration the native store will change its indexing strategy, without loss of data.
 
+Set `config:native.memoryMappedTxnStatusFile` to `true` to enable the experimental memory-mapped transaction status file. When unset, the store falls back to the legacy file implementation.
+
 ##### Example configuration
 
 ```turtle