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Google was

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/introd...

storing billions of records in database is hard, but querying them is harder

if you want to try, get yourself some proper tools first: https://github.com/blockchain-etl

or you can just query transactions via RPC

Yes, it's well into the TBs of data now. Even compressed we're over 1TB for just Ethereum at Luabase (https://luabase.com/, we provide a "data stack in a box" for blockchain data)

Also if somebody wants to get into this type, I would recommend infura as source of data, or some other similar providers.

i'd also add alchemy (alchemy.com) to the list