It sounds way less offensive to those who decry the original terminology's problematic roots but still keeps its meaning intact.

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In Cassandra all nodes are equal, but specific nodes hold specific parts of data. The only concept is the coordinator node which is the node that got the query. All nodes can handle all queries. The coordinator node is different per request.

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