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What is read concern in MongoDB?

Mid MongoDB
Quick Answer Read concern controls data freshness and isolation for read operations. local: returns data that may not be majority-committed (default). majority: returns data acknowledged by majority of replicas - won't roll back. linearizable: guarantees reading the most recent majority-committed data (slowest). snapshot: consistent point-in-time view for transactions. Choose based on consistency requirements.

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Read concern determines the consistency level of reads, such as local, majority, or snapshot for transactions.
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