The Species Inventory application (SI) stores the sighting information and associated search indices in flash memory, instead of RAM, making it an industrial strength data logger (with a 2 Gbyte SD card, SI can manage about 20 million sightings).
And the sighting information is stored as text, formatted as comma separated values, making it easy to import and export to and from spreadsheet applications such as Googles on-line shared spreadsheet.
