With the other comment about kdb+ and this show a misread of the article: The article AND ANY use of a columnar DB show the same issue: Point lookups are badly pessimized with both partitions on other columns and/or columnar.

That is why columnar DBs, not matter how impressive, are not used by OLTP workloads (and here this article point you can undo the advantages without pay attention at the consequences of partitions).