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Patryk Jędrzejczak 4e984139b2 Merge 'strongly consistent tables: basic implementation' from Petr Gusev
In this PR we add a basic implementation of the strongly-consistent tables:
* generate raft group id when a strongly-consistent table is created
* persist it into system.tables table
* start raft groups on replicas when a strongly-consistent tablet_map reaches them
* add strongly-consistent version of the storage_proxy, with the `query` and `mutate` methods
* the `mutate` method submits a command to the tablets raft group, the query method reads the data with `raft.read_barrier()`
* strongly-consistent versions of the `select_statement` and `modification_statement` are added
* a basic `test_strong_consistency.py/test_basic_write_read` is added which to check that we can write and read data in a strongly consistent fashion.

Limitations:
* for now the strongly consistent tables can have tablets only on shard zero. This is because we (ab/re) use the existing raft system tables which live only on shard0. In the next PRs we'll create separate tables for the new tablets raft groups.
* No Scylla-side proxying - the test has to figure out who is the leader and submit the command to the right node. This will be fixed separately.
* No tablet balancing -- migration/split/merges require separate complicated code.

The new behavior is hidden behind `STRONGLY_CONSISTENT_TABLES` feature, which is enabled when the `STRONGLY_CONSISTENT_TABLES` experimental feature flag is set.

Requirements, specs and general overview of the feature can be found [here](https://scylladb.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/RND/pages/91422722/Strong+Consistency). Short term implementation plan is [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1afKeeHaCkKxER7IThHkaAQlh2JWpbqhFLIQ3CzmiXhI/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.thkorgfek290)

One can check the strongly consistent writes and reads locally via cqlsh:
scylla.yaml:
```
experimental_features:
  - strongly-consistent-tables
```

cqlsh:
```
CREATE KEYSPACE IF NOT EXISTS my_ks WITH replication = {'class': 'NetworkTopologyStrategy', 'replication_factor': 1} AND tablets = {'initial': 1} AND consistency = 'local';
CREATE TABLE my_ks.test (pk int PRIMARY KEY, c int);
INSERT INTO my_ks.test (pk, c) VALUES (10, 20);
SELECT * FROM my_ks.test WHERE pk = 10;
```

Fixes SCYLLADB-34
Fixes SCYLLADB-32
Fixes SCYLLADB-31
Fixes SCYLLADB-33
Fixes SCYLLADB-56

backport: no need

Closes scylladb/scylladb#27614

* https://github.com/scylladb/scylladb:
  test_encryption: capture stderr
  test/cluster: add test_strong_consistency.py
  raft_group_registry: disable metrics for non-0 groups
  strong consistency: implement select_statement::do_execute()
  cql: add select_statement.cc
  strong consistency: implement coordinator::query()
  cql: add modification_statement
  cql: add statement_helpers
  strong consistency: implement coordinator::mutate()
  raft.hh: make server::wait_for_leader() public
  strong_consistency: add coordinator
  modification_statement: make get_timeout public
  strong_consistency: add groups_manager
  strong_consistency: add state_machine and raft_command
  table: add get_max_timestamp_for_tablet
  tablets: generate raft group_id-s for new table
  tablet_replication_strategy: add consistency field
  tablets: add raft_group_id
  modification_statement: remove virtual where it's not needed
  modification_statement: inline prepare_statement()
  system_keyspace: disable tablet_balancing for strongly_consistent_tables
  cql: rename strongly_consistent statements to broadcast statements
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