Metadata plays a crucial role in enabling business-critical applications to function effectively, particularly in the AI era where it transforms raw data into strategic assets for growth. Metadata provides essential context for AI workloads, aiding in trust and usage understanding, and its absence during outages can lead to significant disruptions. Organizations face an average of 86 outages annually, often resulting in data control and trust loss. CockroachDB offers a resilient solution by replicating data across multiple regions, ensuring near-zero Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO), which minimizes downtime and enhances global data availability. It also supports online maintenance operations without affecting availability, demonstrated by tasks like patching nodes and performing schema changes in a multi-region deployment. Additionally, CockroachDB's architecture aids in regulatory compliance and reduces user latency, showcasing its effectiveness in maintaining always-on metadata.