Clarify about the SMB Join in Hive?

In SMB join in Hive, every mapper peruses a bucket from the first table and the relating bucket from the second table, and after that, a merge sort join is performed. Sort Merge Bucket (SMB) joins in the hive is for the most utilized as there are no restrictions on file or segment or table join. SMB join can best be utilized when the tables are huge. In SMB join the sections are bucketed and arranged to utilize the join segments. All tables ought to have a similar number of buckets in SMB join.