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

I personally haven't noticed any issues storing data such as images and documents (both DOC and PDF) into Riak. I don't have performance numbers but might be able to gather some should I remember.

Something of note, with Riak you can use Luwak which provides an api for storing large files. This has been pretty useful.