HTTP 500 leads to multiple retries within timeout period

In my test suite the client retried the same failing query ~150x before timing out:

{
"requestID": "915e5fce-0aad-4d7a-88d8-7ce4ab2c5f96",
"errors": [

{ "code": 12003, "msg": "Keyspace not found keyspace MyBucketName - cause: No bucket named MyBucketName" }

],
"status": "fatal",
"metrics":

{ "elapsedTime": "17.451268ms", "executionTime": "17.417812ms", "resultCount": 0, "resultSize": 0, "errorCount": 1 }

}