Hello. Thanks for the Steem Pressure series so far.

I'm investigating setting up a local node to generate a local copy of the steem blockchain to in turn create a database. I had initialy tried using steem python to generate a .json file of the blockchain using the public api, but that was evidentaly not ideal due to the time it would take to complete. Would you be able to give me an idea of the hardware, and the node plugins, that would be required to achieve this? I have so far not came accross a tutorial which provides instruction as to this, and would be greatful for any help you could provide.