Alkin Tezuysal is the Director of Services at Altinity Inc. He has extensive experience in open-source relational databases, working in various sectors and large functions. With over three decades of industry experience, he has led global operations teams for MySQL customers and users. He's a known speaker at worldwide open-source database events.

His recent achievements extend into open-source communities: He was awarded Most Influential in Database Community 2022 by The Redgate 100. He has co-authored MySQL Cookbook, 4th Edition 2022, by O'Reilly Media, Inc. He was awarded MySQL Rockstar 2023—Oracle (MySQL Community)—Co-authored Database Design and Modeling with PostgreSQL and MySQL 2024 by Packt. 

Presentations

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Boosting MySQL with Vector Search: Introducing the MyVector Plugin

As vector databases and Generative AI gain momentum, this session introduces the *MyVector Plugin*, which enables vector storage and similarity search in MySQL. Using MySQL’s server component plugin and UDF, the *MyVector Plugin* integrates vector search into MySQL + InnoDB without requiring a separate vector database. The talk covers technical details, challenges, and practical applications, offering valuable insights on adding vector search to MySQL systems and covering how vectors work, practical applications, or both.

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Design and Modeling for MySQL

This  talk proposal explores the essential concepts and practical skills outlined in the book "Database Design and Modeling with MySQL." Databases are the backbone of modern applications, and mastering their design and modeling is crucial for building efficient and scalable systems. This talk will provide an overview of the book's key insights and how they can empower developers, database administrators, and data professionals to create robust, high-performing databases.

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How OLTP to OLAP Archival Demystified

Popular open-source databases are designed to handle specific workloads; hence there's no silver bullet. But taking advantage of time-series data with the columnar data store is possible. OLTP databases such as Postgres, MariaDB, and MySQL can handle a variety of workloads as long as they are within the limits of smaller transactional operations and data sizes. 

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