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Data warehouse (DWH) systems play an important role in the IT landscapes of today's enterprises. In order to cope with the complex transformation processes and big data volumes, they have to be supplemented by metadata. Two main uses of such metadata are data lineage analyses, allowing data elements within the DWH to be traced back to their origin, and impact analyses, revealing which other elements...