ENTERPRISE FILE STORAGE

Polybase vs. Box

Box und Polybase setzen unterschiedliche Schwerpunkte. Vergleichen Sie Funktionen, Bereitstellung und den praktischen Wechsel.
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POLYBASE
Polybase Drive puts files inside team channels, next to the conversation that produced them
BOX
ENTERPRISE FILE STORAGE
Funktion
10+
Wechsel von Box
5

Box is a US company — even with regional storage zones, the CLOUD Act can reach your content wherever it is stored, and Box does not offer a self-hosted option today. Polybase gives you EU cloud, your own VPC, or air-gapped self-host.

Polybase
Box
POLYBASE

Ein Workspace. Jede Oberfläche.

Polybase Drive puts files inside team channels, next to the conversation that produced them. Members get access through channel membership and configurable roles enforced at the database layer, file fields are protected against direct access, and external sharing runs on signed links with view tracking. Previews, search, tasks, docs and calls sit in the same workspace — deployed in our EU-region cloud, your VPC, or air-gapped on your own hardware.

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BOX

Leistungsstark. Aber allein.

Box is a mature enterprise content management platform. Its governance tooling is genuinely strong — retention policies, legal hold, classification, threat detection — and it carries the certifications large compliance teams ask for, with a catalogue of 1,500+ app integrations. But its focus is content management: chat, project tracking and calls generally live in other tools, the platform runs in Box's cloud as a US company, and much of the security stack (Shield, Governance, KeySafe) is sold as enterprise-tier add-ons on top of per-seat pricing.

ENTERPRISE FILE STORAGE
Vergleich

Ein praktischer Vergleich.

Vergleichen Sie, wie Polybase und Box die tägliche Arbeit Ihres Teams unterstützen.

Funktion
Polybase
Box
File Storage & Sharing
Files Live Beside Conversations
Via integrations
Integrated Chat, Tasks & Calls
Limited
Signed Share Links with View Tracking
Advanced controls on paid tiers
Granular Access Control
Configurable roles, enforced in the database
7 collaboration roles
Retention & Legal Hold
Box Governance (add-on)
Enterprise DLP & Threat Detection
Box Shield (add-on)
Compliance Certifications
Roadmap (SOC 2, ISO 27001)
SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP
Self-Hosted / Air-Gapped Deployment
Third-Party Integration Catalogue
GitHub, HubSpot, REST API, MCP
1,500+ apps

Basierend auf öffentlich verfügbaren Informationen zu Box, Stand August 2026. Produkte entwickeln sich weiter — Pläne und Funktionen können sich geändert haben; bitte prüfen Sie Details beim Anbieter. Etwas veraltet? Schreiben Sie uns an [email protected].

Migration

Wechsel von Box.

Eine praktische Reihenfolge, um den Wechsel zu planen, nützliche Inhalte zu übertragen und den neuen Workspace einzuführen.

5 steps
  1. 01

    Audit Your Box Content

    Review what your team actually uses in Box. Export active project files, shared assets and reference material; leave stale archives behind or move them to cold storage. This is also the moment to note which folders map to which teams.

  2. 02

    Map Box Folders to Polybase Channels

    Create a Polybase channel per project or team where a Box folder tree lived. A channel holds the files plus the chat, tasks and calls around them, so the folder hierarchy usually flattens into a shorter list of channels.

  3. 03

    Upload Files and Set Roles

    Upload files into their channels. Access follows channel membership and the roles you configure — enforced at the database layer rather than per-folder collaborator lists, so there is no permissions spreadsheet to maintain.

  4. 04

    Recreate External Sharing with Signed Links

    Replace Box shared links with Polybase signed share links. You can track views per page, and external partners who need more than a file can join a single channel as scoped guests.

  5. 05

    Wind Down Box Seats

    Once day-to-day file work happens in Polybase, reduce Box to any seats you still need for records-management obligations, or cancel entirely. We help with migration during onboarding; automated importers are on the roadmap.

Why Polybase

Was Polybase umfasst.

Zusätzliche Workspace-Funktionen, die Sie beim Vergleich von Polybase und Box berücksichtigen können.

01

Files With the Conversation Attached

In Box, the discussion around a file often lives in another tool — the Slack thread, the email chain. In Polybase the file sits in the channel where it was discussed, so the why behind every version is one scroll away.

02

Deploy Where Your Rules Require

Box runs only in Box's cloud, operated by a US company. Polybase offers EU-region cloud, deployment into your own VPC, or a fully air-gapped Docker Compose install — your servers, your keys.

03

Permissions Without the Admin Project

Box access means maintaining collaborator lists across folder trees. Polybase enforces configurable roles from a fixed permission catalog directly in database rules, with protected file fields — auditable, and covered by a CI drift test.

04

No Security Paywall

Box sells threat detection, governance and key management as enterprise-tier add-ons. Polybase's permission model, protected file fields and signed share links are part of the core product at €10 per user.

05

A Workspace, Not Just a Content Layer

Box is typically paired with a chat tool, a task tracker and a video product around it. Polybase includes chat, tasks, docs, calls and calendar alongside Drive — fewer tools to buy, integrate and secure.

Häufige Fragen

Häufige Fragen

Fragen zum Wechsel von Box zu Polybase.

01Does Polybase match Box's compliance certifications?
Not yet — Box holds SOC 2, ISO 27001 and FedRAMP, and if a certificate is a hard procurement requirement today, Box is ahead there. Polybase is not certified yet; SOC 2 and ISO 27001 are on our roadmap, and we answer security questionnaires and architecture questions today. Self-hosting also changes the conversation: the data never leaves infrastructure you already govern.
02Does Polybase have retention policies and legal hold?
No — Box Governance is stronger for formal records management. Polybase keeps message edit history server-side append-only, and a general audit log panel is on the roadmap. Backups are portable, SQLite-based database backups, with uploaded files on the filesystem or volume covered by your standard snapshots. Teams under strict retention mandates sometimes keep a small Box footprint for records while daily work moves to Polybase.
03How does external file sharing work in Polybase?
Two ways. Signed share links let anyone outside the workspace view a file, with per-page view tracking so you can see what was actually read. For ongoing collaboration, invite external partners as guests scoped to a single channel — they see only that channel's files and conversations.
04What about Box's 1,500+ integrations?
Polybase's catalogue is smaller: a GitHub connector, HubSpot, public form ingestion, a REST API and an MCP server that works with Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT. In practice you need fewer integrations, because the chat, tasks, docs and calls that Box integrations bridge to are already in the workspace.
05Is there a desktop sync client like Box Drive?
No — Polybase is workspace-first. Files are uploaded to and opened from channels in the browser or the installable PWA; desktop and mobile apps are available. If your workflow depends on a synced filesystem folder, that is a real difference to weigh.
06Is there a guided importer from Box?
Not yet. We provide migration assistance during onboarding — mapping your folder structure to channels and moving active content — and automated importers are on the roadmap. Most teams migrate project by project rather than all at once.
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