CockroachDB, a geographically distributed database, offers benefits like reliability, security, and cost-effective deployments without compromising on throughput and latency. It configures nodes with locality information to manage replication zones effectively, ensuring high diversity and low latency, especially in regions like Asia. For example, Roachmart keeps two replicas in Asia to maintain low latency and places a third replica in the US for diversity, only relocating it back to Asia during regional failures. In the event of a data center failure, CockroachDB can replace missing replicas, balancing resource use with operational continuity. It supports multi-cloud deployments, enabling users to distribute nodes across different cloud providers or regions to optimize availability and latency. Developers can leverage CockroachDB's tools to find the best balance between these factors, especially given the typical application trend of more frequent reads than writes.