Does it meaningfully deal with binary data, that is can extract then encode, decide them, handle parts with corrupted data, do analysis on them etc? What about images and other large 2d data?
It supports arbitrary data formats, including binary data. It sends corrupted data or data that fails to parse to an 'error' stream where you can complete further processing on it. I don't think Stroom is right for you if you're processing data like images and other large 2d data sets. It is primarily made for data that can be transformed to XML.
Are you actually affiliated or is this just a cute coincidence? Hard to tell from your message history, but I assume even if you are you would not pick a username like that, lol.
