How to Build a Tron Transfer Index Without Running a Full Node (opens in new tab)

A crypto data team building a Tron index in their warehouse has the same architectural decision sooner or later. The product needs every TRX and TRC-20 transfer the team cares about, written to their own database, in a schema their downstream analytics depends on. Two paths look reasonable on paper. Run `java-tron` plus a custom indexer (a SQL projection on top of the node, or an Elasticsearch / ClickHouse / Postgres extractor pulling from the node's RPC). Or use Bitquery as the upstream data...