Downsides of storing binary data in Riak?

Question

What are the problems, if any, of storing binary data in Riak?

Does it effect the maintainability and performance of the clustering?

What would the performance d

Answer 1

The only problem I can think of is storing binary data larger than 50MBs which they advise against. The whole point of Riak is just that:

Another reason one might pick Riak is for flexibility in modeling your data. Riak will store any data you tell it to in a content-agnostic way — it does not enforce tables, columns, or referential integrity. This means you can store binary files right alongside more programmer-transparent formats like JSON or XML.

Source: Schema Design in Riak - Introduction