Difference between Session and Cookies

S.No	Session State	Cookies
1	Session can store any type of data because the value is of datatype of "object"	Cookies can store only "string" datatype
2	These are stored at Server side	They are stored at Client side
3	Session are secured because it is stored in binary format/encrypted form and it gets decrypted at server	Cookie is non-secure since stored in text format at client side
4	Session is independent for every client i.e individual for every client	Cookies may or may not be individual for every client
5	There is no limitation on size or number of sessions to be used in an application	Due to cookies network traffic will increase.Size of cookie is limited to 40 and number of cookies to be used is restricted to 20.
6	For all conditions/situations we can use sessions	Only in few situations we can use cookies because of no security
7	We cannot disable the sessions.Sessions can be used without cookies also(by disabling cookies)	We can disable cookies
8	The disadvantage of session is that it is a burden/overhead on server	Since the value is string there is no security
9	Sessions are called as Non-Persistent cookies because its life time can be set manually	We have persistent and non-persistent cookies