Riak Search and Erlang Proplists

Riak Search is Basho's full-text search engine, which is built into Riak Core. It has the ability to index Erlang Proplists, but only when both the key and the value are binaries.

So this will not work:

[{key, value}].
[{"key", "value"}].

But this will:

[{<<"key">>, <<"value">>}].