Similar, yes. It supports many more protocols than SSH though[0]. It also supports multi-hops, even across multiple protocols if it can[1]. So you could say: access a remote server over SSH, and then pivot to a Windows machine behind a firewall using Samba, all by simply specifying a file path to do that.

[0] https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/tramp-emacs.html#Connecti...

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/tramp-emacs.html#Ad_002dh...