diff --git a/deps/rabbit/BUILD.bazel b/deps/rabbit/BUILD.bazel
index 9244d93f77fe..ba4cf2fe20f8 100644
--- a/deps/rabbit/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/deps/rabbit/BUILD.bazel
@@ -1256,7 +1256,7 @@ rabbitmq_integration_suite(
 
 rabbitmq_integration_suite(
     name = "cluster_minority_SUITE",
-    size = "large",
+    size = "medium",
     additional_beam = [
         ":test_clustering_utils_beam",
     ],
diff --git a/deps/rabbit/src/rabbit_db_user.erl b/deps/rabbit/src/rabbit_db_user.erl
index ba629a5c71ea..c19084f74ad4 100644
--- a/deps/rabbit/src/rabbit_db_user.erl
+++ b/deps/rabbit/src/rabbit_db_user.erl
@@ -374,14 +374,16 @@ match_user_permissions_in_khepri('_' = _Username, VHostName) ->
           VHostName,
           fun() ->
                   match_user_permissions_in_khepri_tx(?KHEPRI_WILDCARD_STAR, VHostName)
-          end));
+          end),
+        ro);
 match_user_permissions_in_khepri(Username, '_' = _VHostName) ->
     rabbit_khepri:transaction(
         with_fun_in_khepri_tx(
           Username,
           fun() ->
                   match_user_permissions_in_khepri_tx(Username, ?KHEPRI_WILDCARD_STAR)
-          end));
+          end),
+        ro);
 match_user_permissions_in_khepri(Username, VHostName) ->
     rabbit_khepri:transaction(
         with_fun_in_khepri_tx(
@@ -390,7 +392,8 @@ match_user_permissions_in_khepri(Username, VHostName) ->
             VHostName,
             fun() ->
                     match_user_permissions_in_khepri_tx(Username, VHostName)
-            end))).
+            end)),
+        ro).
 
 match_user_permissions_in_khepri_tx(Username, VHostName) ->
     Path = khepri_user_permission_path(Username, VHostName),
@@ -739,7 +742,7 @@ match_topic_permissions_in_khepri('_' = _Username, '_' = _VHostName, ExchangeNam
       fun() ->
               match_topic_permissions_in_khepri_tx(
                 ?KHEPRI_WILDCARD_STAR, ?KHEPRI_WILDCARD_STAR, any(ExchangeName))
-      end);
+      end, ro);
 match_topic_permissions_in_khepri('_' = _Username, VHostName, ExchangeName) ->
     rabbit_khepri:transaction(
         rabbit_db_vhost:with_fun_in_khepri_tx(
@@ -747,7 +750,8 @@ match_topic_permissions_in_khepri('_' = _Username, VHostName, ExchangeName) ->
           fun() ->
                   match_topic_permissions_in_khepri_tx(
                     ?KHEPRI_WILDCARD_STAR, VHostName, any(ExchangeName))
-          end));
+          end),
+        ro);
 match_topic_permissions_in_khepri(
   Username, '_' = _VHostName, ExchangeName) ->
     rabbit_khepri:transaction(
@@ -756,7 +760,8 @@ match_topic_permissions_in_khepri(
           fun() ->
                   match_topic_permissions_in_khepri_tx(
                     Username, ?KHEPRI_WILDCARD_STAR, any(ExchangeName))
-          end));
+          end),
+        ro);
 match_topic_permissions_in_khepri(
   Username, VHostName, ExchangeName) ->
     rabbit_khepri:transaction(
@@ -767,7 +772,8 @@ match_topic_permissions_in_khepri(
             fun() ->
                     match_topic_permissions_in_khepri_tx(
                       Username, VHostName, any(ExchangeName))
-            end))).
+            end)),
+        ro).
 
 match_topic_permissions_in_khepri_tx(Username, VHostName, ExchangeName) ->
     Path = khepri_topic_permission_path(Username, VHostName, ExchangeName),
diff --git a/deps/rabbit/src/rabbit_khepri.erl b/deps/rabbit/src/rabbit_khepri.erl
index 1e617f968d43..05f517f30875 100644
--- a/deps/rabbit/src/rabbit_khepri.erl
+++ b/deps/rabbit/src/rabbit_khepri.erl
@@ -974,7 +974,16 @@ transaction(Fun, ReadWrite) ->
     transaction(Fun, ReadWrite, #{}).
 
 transaction(Fun, ReadWrite, Options0) ->
-    Options = maps:merge(?DEFAULT_COMMAND_OPTIONS, Options0),
+    %% If the transaction is read-only, use the same default options we use
+    %% for most queries.
+    DefaultQueryOptions = case ReadWrite of
+                              ro ->
+                                  #{favor => low_latency};
+                              _ ->
+                                  #{}
+                          end,
+    Options1 = maps:merge(DefaultQueryOptions, Options0),
+    Options = maps:merge(?DEFAULT_COMMAND_OPTIONS, Options1),
     case khepri:transaction(?STORE_ID, Fun, ReadWrite, Options) of
         ok -> ok;
         {ok, Result} -> Result;
diff --git a/deps/rabbit/test/cluster_minority_SUITE.erl b/deps/rabbit/test/cluster_minority_SUITE.erl
index 352199f0afa3..558635d1b893 100644
--- a/deps/rabbit/test/cluster_minority_SUITE.erl
+++ b/deps/rabbit/test/cluster_minority_SUITE.erl
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 -include_lib("amqp_client/include/amqp_client.hrl").
 -include_lib("eunit/include/eunit.hrl").
 
--compile(export_all).
+-compile([export_all, nowarn_export_all]).
 
 all() ->
     [
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ groups() ->
                               update_user,
                               delete_user,
                               set_policy,
-                              delete_policy
+                              delete_policy,
+                              export_definitions
                              ]},
      {cluster_operation_add, [], [add_node]},
      {cluster_operation_remove, [], [remove_node]},
@@ -89,6 +90,14 @@ init_per_group(Group, Config0) when Group == client_operations;
             #'queue.declare_ok'{} = amqp_channel:call(Ch, #'queue.declare'{queue = <<"test-queue">>,
                                                                            arguments = [{<<"x-queue-type">>, longstr, <<"classic">>}]}),
 
+            %% Lower the default Khepri command timeout. By default this is set
+            %% to 30s in `rabbit_khepri:setup/1' which makes the cases in this
+            %% group run unnecessarily slow.
+            [ok = rabbit_ct_broker_helpers:rpc(
+                    Config1, N,
+                    application, set_env,
+                    [khepri, default_timeout, 100]) || N <- lists:seq(0, 4)],
+
             %% Create partition
             partition_5_node_cluster(Config1),
             Config1
@@ -105,8 +114,8 @@ init_per_group(Group, Config0) ->
 
 end_per_group(_, Config) ->
     rabbit_ct_helpers:run_steps(Config,
-                                rabbit_ct_broker_helpers:teardown_steps() ++
-                                    rabbit_ct_client_helpers:teardown_steps()).
+                                rabbit_ct_client_helpers:teardown_steps() ++
+                                    rabbit_ct_broker_helpers:teardown_steps()).
 
 init_per_testcase(Testcase, Config) ->
     rabbit_ct_helpers:testcase_started(Config, Testcase).
@@ -253,6 +262,11 @@ enable_feature_flag(Config) ->
     [A | _] = rabbit_ct_broker_helpers:get_node_configs(Config, nodename),
     ?assertMatch({error, missing_clustered_nodes}, rabbit_ct_broker_helpers:rpc(Config, A, rabbit_feature_flags, enable, [khepri_db])).
 
+export_definitions(Config) ->
+    Definitions = rabbit_ct_broker_helpers:rpc(
+                    Config, 0,
+                    rabbit_definitions, all_definitions, []),
+    ?assert(is_map(Definitions)).
 
 %% -------------------------------------------------------------------
 %% Internal helpers.