A primary advantage is horizontal scalability. If you need more capacity, just add more nodes. Additionally it offers better fault tolerance and zero-downtime

A primary advantage is horizontal scalability. If you need more capacity, just add more nodes. Additionally it offers better fault tolerance and zero-downtime online upgrades. For more advanced use cases it can be deployed in a geo-replicated topology and configured with partitioning for low latency transactions when confined to a single region while proving strong consistency and a single logical database globally. Disclaimer: I work on cockroach.