I'm migrating from XNA to SharpDX in Win8. I noticed this DrawBitmap call in one of the samples.
Is this different in some shape, way or form from XNA's SpriteBatch?
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Yes, they are absolutely different.
The SharpDX method you linked to is a wrapper around the native Direct2D DrawBitmap methods; SharpDX is primarily just an interoperability API that provides a wrapper around native functions (excluding it's "toolkit" APIs).
XNA's SpriteBatch is a high-level wrapper around Direct3D drawing primitives (vertex buffers, textures, shaders) that provides an easy way to draw sprites.
You can use both interfaces to draw 2D sprites on a screen. Used properly you can probably achieve performance parity. However, they are not interchangeable interfaces.