Python is well-known for being batteries-included. It also has access to sqlite as part of the standard library. But the standard library doesn't have anything equivalent for a NoSQL database.
According to the 2022 Stack Overflow developer survey, MongoDB is the most popular NoSQL database (and the 4th most popular database overall), and the most wanted NoSQL database which 17% of developers wanting to use it.
I'm also mindful that MongoDB stopped being open source with its Server Side Public License (SSPL).
For all these reasons I think Python should have a NoSQL document database as part of the standard library; and that its functionality should be based on that of MongoDB. This means that if a project using it grows to something big it can easily move up to a bigger database.
If such a database existed in the Python standard library, would you use it?
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