Bigtable Internal Development Begins

A small team of Google engineers, including Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, and Sanjay Ghemawat, began work on a new distributed storage system to handle Google's rapidly growing data needs, addressing the limitations of existing relational databases.

Significance

This marked the inception of Bigtable, a project driven by the critical internal need to scale Google's core services, laying the groundwork for a revolutionary database architecture.