As the need for information grows so does the size of data we need to keep in our databases. SST is unavoidable for spinning up new nodes in a PXC cluster and when datasets reach the terra-byte range this becomes ever more cumbersome requiring many hours for a new node to synchronize. More often that not, [&]

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