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

With Riak, the recommended maximum is 2MB per object. Above that, it's recommended to use either Riak CS, which has been tested with objects up to 5TB (Stored in Riak as 1MB objects) or by naturally breaking up your large object into 2MB chunks and linking by a key and suffix.