Alkin Tezuysal and René Cannaò will co-present “Beyond the Proxy: The Expanding ProxySQL Ecosystem” — a live webinar hosted by the OurSQL Foundation on November 3, 2026.

The session covers the broader ProxySQL ecosystem: expanding support for MySQL and PostgreSQL, a roadmap toward DuckDB, deeper cloud integration, and how tools like Orchestrator and dbdeployer fit in — structured around real operational problems rather than a feature checklist.

👉 OurSQL Foundation announcement

MyVector v1.26.9 has been released with support for MySQL 26.7 — the first Innovation release under Oracle’s new calendar-based versioning scheme, which replaces traditional x.y.z numbering with a YYYY.M format.

The release also gives the component-based architecture introduced in v1.26.5 a more rigorous test run across the new Innovation release track. MyVector is an open-source plugin that adds native vector search to MySQL Community Edition, developed and maintained by Alkin Tezuysal.

👉 See the MyVector benchmark: How fast is vector search inside MySQL?

Alkin Tezuysal co-presented “Managed ProxySQL in Your Own AWS Account” with René Cannaò (CEO of ProxySQL) at MySQL BR Conf 2026 in São Paulo, Brazil on September 26, 2026.

The session covered ProxySQL.Cloud — a bring-your-own-cloud architecture that lets users run managed ProxySQL instances in their own AWS accounts. Topics included configuration, day-to-day operations, and the business case for cloud-native ProxySQL deployment. MySQL BR Conf is the premier MySQL community event in Latin America.

👉 Slides and recap via VillageSQL

MyVector was featured at the inaugural MySQL Ecosystem Spotlight at Percona Live Amsterdam (September 9–11, 2026) — a shared community booth showcasing open-source MySQL projects, organized by the OurSQL Foundation.

Alkin Tezuysal, founder of MyVector, represented the project alongside four other MySQL ecosystem tools. On the experience, he said:

“The best way to unite the community and bring projects together.”

He also noted that while MyVector has been around for years and is well known within the close MySQL circle, the Spotlight helped it reach an audience that had never heard of it before.

👉 Read the full recap on OurSQL Foundation

Alkin Tezuysal joined the Inside MySQL: Sakila Speaks podcast to introduce MyVector — a native vector search plugin for MySQL Community Edition that brings similarity search and AI-ready capabilities directly into MySQL without requiring an external service.

The episode covers how MyVector works, how community users can get started, and why embedding vector search inside MySQL matters for AI and semantic search applications. MyVector adds native vector storage and ANN (Approximate Nearest Neighbor) query support to MySQL, enabling use cases such as RAG pipelines, recommendation engines, and image similarity search.

👉 Listen: MyVector Magic — Elevating MySQL with AI Search

Alkin Tezuysal was named Oracle ACE Pro in the April 2025 class of the Oracle ACE Program — Oracle’s recognition for technology thought leaders who share their expertise with the community through speaking, writing, and open-source contributions.

The Oracle ACE Pro designation is the program’s mid tier, sitting between ACE Associate and ACE Director. It recognizes individuals with deep technical expertise and a proven record of community contribution. Alkin was recognized in the Database focus area.

👉 See the 2025–2026 Oracle ACE Program members

👉 View Alkin’s Oracle ACE profile

Oracle’s MySQL Community awarded Alkin Tezuysal the MySQL Rockstar 2023 title, recognizing outstanding contributions to the MySQL ecosystem through writing, speaking, community organizing, and open-source development.

In a Q&A published by ODBMS in October 2024, Alkin shared his views on the future of MySQL:

“MySQL stepping into the vector realm is not only crucial but inevitable.”

“The primary challenge is the absence of standardized approaches to vector data types.”

He also discussed the role of ClickHouse and MySQL HeatWave in the broader open-source analytics space, and reflected on his MySQL Cookbook, 4th Edition (O’Reilly, 2022) — a project he describes as taking two and a half years to complete.

👉 Read the full Q&A on ODBMS.org

Alkin Tezuysal was named Most Influential in the Database Community 2022 by The Redgate 100 — an annual ranking by Redgate Software spotlighting the database community’s most impactful contributors. Alkin was recognized in the Open Source Database category.

The recognition reflects his 30+ years working across open-source relational databases, his leadership of global MySQL operations teams, his conference speaking, and his work bridging enterprise adoption with open-source communities.

👉 View the Redgate 100 profile