REFERENCE ATTRIBUTE QUERY PROCESSING FOR A MULTI-TENANT CLOUD SERVICE

A system performs reference attribute query processing in a multi-tenant cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) system by: receiving a request from a client of the multi-tenant cloud-based IAM system, where the request indicates one or more reference attributes associated with a resource that is persisted in a database of the multi-tenant cloud-based IAM system, and the request indicates one or more filter conditions configured to be applied on the one or more reference attributes; building a query based on the one or more reference attributes and the one or more filter conditions; retrieving resource data by executing the query on a database of the multi-tenant cloud-based IAM system, where the retrieved resource data is associated with the one or more reference attributes and satisfies the one or more filter conditions; and returning the retrieved data to the client of the multi-tenant cloud-based IAM system.