Which of these joins does not require input topics to be sharing the same number of partitions?

Which of these joins does not require input topics to be sharing the same number of partitions?
A . KStream-KTable join
B . KStream-KStream join
C . KStream-GlobalKTable
D . KTable-KTable join

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Answer: C

Explanation:

GlobalKTables have their datasets replicated on each Kafka Streams instance and therefore no repartitioning is required