diff --git a/docs/quickstart.rst b/docs/quickstart.rst
index 2144392c3..1933e054a 100644
--- a/docs/quickstart.rst
+++ b/docs/quickstart.rst
@@ -6,12 +6,16 @@ Requirements
 
 - Django 1.6 or 1.7
 - Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.3, or 3.4
-- `django-redis <https://github.com/niwibe/django-redis>`_,
-  `memcached <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/cache/#memcached>`_,
-  `filebased <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/cache/#filesystem-caching>`_
-  (only with Django >= 1.7 as it is not thread-safe before),
-  or `locmem <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/cache/#local-memory-caching>`_
-  (but it’s not shared between processes, so don’t use it with RQ or Celery)
+- a cache configured as `default` with one of these backends:
+
+  - `django-redis <https://github.com/niwibe/django-redis>`_
+  - `memcached <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/cache/#memcached>`_
+    (using either python-memcached or pylibmc)
+  - `filebased <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/cache/#filesystem-caching>`_
+    (only with Django >= 1.7 as it was not thread-safe before)
+  - `locmem <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/cache/#local-memory-caching>`_
+    (but it’s not shared between processes, so don’t use it with RQ or Celery)
+
 - PostgreSQL, MySQL or SQLite
 
 Usage
diff --git a/runtests_requirements.txt b/runtests_requirements.txt
index afcda50df..4b49be35e 100644
--- a/runtests_requirements.txt
+++ b/runtests_requirements.txt
@@ -3,4 +3,5 @@ psycopg2
 MySQL-python
 django-redis
 python-memcached
+pylibmc
 South
diff --git a/settings.py b/settings.py
index 93f232ca4..1e9247e1a 100644
--- a/settings.py
+++ b/settings.py
@@ -65,9 +65,18 @@
         'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache',
         'LOCATION': '127.0.0.1:11211',
     },
+    'pylibmc': {
+        'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.PyLibMCCache',
+        'LOCATION': '127.0.0.1:11211',
+    },
 }
 
-CACHES['default'] = CACHES.pop(os.environ.get('CACHE_BACKEND', 'locmem'))
+DEFAULT_CACHE_ALIAS = os.environ.get('CACHE_BACKEND', 'locmem')
+CACHES['default'] = CACHES.pop(DEFAULT_CACHE_ALIAS)
+if DEFAULT_CACHE_ALIAS == 'memcached':
+    del CACHES['pylibmc']
+elif DEFAULT_CACHE_ALIAS == 'pylibmc':
+    del CACHES['memcached']
 
 
 INSTALLED_APPS = [
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index d8ebdfa8f..c4a1972cc 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 [tox]
 envlist =
-    py2.6-django1.6-{sqlite3,postgresql,mysql}-{locmem,redis,memcached},
+    py2.6-django1.6-{sqlite3,postgresql,mysql}-{locmem,redis,memcached,pylibmc},
+    py2.7-django{1.6,1.7}-{sqlite3,postgresql,mysql}-pylibmc,
     py{2.7,3.2,3.3,3.4}-django1.7-{sqlite3,postgresql,mysql}-filebased,
     py{2.7,3.2,3.3,3.4}-django{1.6,1.7}-{sqlite3,postgresql,mysql}-{locmem,redis,memcached},
 
@@ -21,6 +22,7 @@ deps =
     py2.6:           unittest2
     py{2.6,2.7}:     MySQL-python
     py{2.6,2.7}:     python-memcached
+    py{2.6,2.7}:     pylibmc
     py{3.2,3.3,3.4}: https://github.com/clelland/MySQL-for-Python-3/tarball/master
     py{3.2,3.3,3.4}: python3-memcached
 setenv =
@@ -31,5 +33,6 @@ setenv =
     filebased:  CACHE_BACKEND=filebased
     redis:      CACHE_BACKEND=redis
     memcached:  CACHE_BACKEND=memcached
+    pylibmc:    CACHE_BACKEND=pylibmc
 commands =
     coverage run -a --source=cachalot ./runtests.py