Selects availability over freshness. Eventually consistent reads will timeout less often than
Strong reads but will occasionally return stale results.
STRONG
Selects freshness over availability. Strongly consistent reads are guaranteed to return the
most up-to-date data but will timeout more often than eventually consistent reads.
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