1. A method comprising: identifying a server in a cloud-based environment that is interfaced with one or more storage devices that store one or more content objects accessible by one or more users, wherein the content objects are identified by one or more hierarchical path identifiers comprising at least one folder identifier corresponding to a logical folder, and wherein the hierarchical path identifiers are stored in a relational database in the storage devices; receiving at least one operation command from at least one of the users to operate on the content objects associated with the logical folder; generating a search query for the relational database to return a plurality of result sets corresponding to respective portions of the content objects associated with the logical folder; and invoking the operation command over the plurality of the result sets.