Systems and methods are provided for receiving a request at a database system that includes a primary node and one or more standby nodes. When the request is determined to be a read-only request and the previous transaction has been replicated to the standby node, the request may be transmitted to one of the one or more standby nodes to perform the read-only operation to retrieve data of the request and transmitting the retrieved data. When the request is determined to be a read-only request and the previous transaction has not been replicated to the standby node, the read-only operation is performed to retrieve data of the request from the primary node and transmitting the retrieved data.