Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a novel method, system and computer program product for linked data driven semantic data storage and access utilizing horizontal reification. In an embodiment of the invention, the method includes creating data for linked data access in a data store and computing meta-data regarding the created data. The method additionally includes encapsulating the created data and the meta-data into a set of multiple different triples. Finally, the method includes reducing the set of multiple different triples pertaining to the created data into a single multi-column record specifying the created data combined with additional columns referencing reification data.