Can a NEAR node apply a filter to transactions

[wackazong]

Is it not possible to configure an indexer node in a way that it only listens to and stores transactions, receipts, and state for specific accounts?

[frol]

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@wackazong NEAR Indexer Framework entirely relies on the nearcore operation which requires storing all the transactions, receipts, and state of all the accounts at least in 5 recent epochs. Thus, when using the Indexer Framework, there is no way to store less than nearcore needs, yet if you use NEAR Lake Framework, you don't need to keep the blockchain data locally as all the blocks were dumped to S3 and you can access arbitrary block at any moment in time.